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weighted

[ wey-tid ]

adjective

  1. having additional weight.
  2. burdened:

    weighted with sorrow.

  3. adjusted or adapted to a representative value, especially in determining the value of a legislator's vote as proportionate to the population of that legislator's constituency.


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Other Words From

  • weighted·ly adverb
  • weighted·ness noun
  • self-weighted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of weighted1

First recorded in 1650–60; weight + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Isn't it time Kate took a lesson from her grandmother-in-law and weighted down those skirts against the pesky wind?

Rigor/College Preparedness (30 percent) Three data points made up this category, each weighted equally.

We weighted all three categories equally to arrive at a final score for each.

He tied his hands and legs together, weighted his body with rocks, and dumped it into the Hudson River.

These small, strong, weighted electro-magnets are attached to each of the dual trackpads.

In shape it is curved, like those things for candles attached to upright pianos, but with a weighted foot to hold it firm.

Claremont, indeed, is a place weighted with memories and sad thoughts of the “might have been.”

It is my belief that he has taken the tent and sunk it out in the bay, weighted with stones, so it will never come to light.

The long war-arrow, weighted with a blazing mass of pitch-smeared 211 moss, stuck in a log a few inches below my peephole.

Thyrsis' back ached, and his feet were as if weighted with lead, but still he plodded on and on—it was his life against a deer's.

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