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heft
noun as in avoirdupois
Weak match
noun as in load
noun as in preponderancy
noun as in weight
Strong matches
Weak match
verb as in carry
verb as in heave
verb as in lift
verb as in tote
verb as in weigh
Strong matches
Example Sentences
"The best of the film is its sheer bloody-minded heft, a blockbuster fuelled by an insistence on bigger, sillier, movie-r," Danny Leigh wrote, giving the film three stars.
The actress "anchors the film with a performance of tremendous courage and heft", agreed Entertainment Weekly's Maureen Lee Lenker.
There was both heft and elegance, a rare combination.
For that, Juson cast Black actors to add emotional heft to historical statements, and to make it impossible to ignore the reality of the Electoral College’s origins in slavery.
In essence, “The Book of Carol” lacks the layered heft those who were pleasantly surprised by the previous chapter might have expected.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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