| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heaviness |
| Synonyms: | G-factor, adiposity, avoirdupois, ballast, burden, density, gravity, gross, heft, heftiness, load, mass, measurement, net, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, pressure, substance, tonnage |
| Main Entry: | weight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | access, authority, clout, connection, consequence, consideration, credit, effectiveness, efficacy, emphasis, forcefulness, forcibleness, impact, import, influence, magnitude, moment, momentousness, persuasiveness, pith, potency, power, powerfulness, prestige, pull, significance, signification, substance, sway, value, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | triviality, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | weight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | albatross, ball and chain, charge, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, load, millstone, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, strain, task, tax |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, pleasure, solution |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, emphasis |
| Synonyms: | significance, stress, weight |
| Antonyms: | unimportance |
| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, control |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authorization, beef, charge, clout*, command, credit, domination, dominion, edge, esteem, force, goods*, government, guts*, influence, juice*, jump, jurisdiction, leg up, license, mastery, might, might and main, permission, permit, pizzazz*, pow, powerhouse, prerogative, prestige, punch, right, ropes, rule, say, say-so, steam, strength, strong arm, stuff*, supremacy, sway, upper hand, warrant, weight, what it takes, whip hand, word, zap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ballast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something giving balance |
| Synonyms: | balance, brace, bracket, counterbalance, counterweight, equilibrium, sandbag, stability, stabilizer, support, weight |
| Main Entry: | bearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance |
| Synonyms: | application, connection, import, meaning, pertinence, reference, relation, relevance, weight |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to favor |
| Synonyms: | distort, incline, influence, make partial, prejudice, prepossess, slant, sway, twist, warp, weight |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Antonyms: | be fair, be impartial, be just |
| Main Entry: | bulk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | size, largeness |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, amount, amplitude, bigness, dimensions, extent, immensity, magnitude, mass, massiveness, quantity, quantum, substance, total, totality, volume, weight |
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