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unweighty en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + weighty. Attested since the 17th century.

Meanings

  1. Not weighty.
    • […] the instances and arguments given by him are very unweighty and trivial to conclude the nature of man to be so full of jealousie and malignity, as he would have it believed to be, from that common practice of circumspection and providence, which custom and discretion hath introduced in human life. 1676, Edward Earl of Clarendon, A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to Church and State in Mr Hobbes's Book entitled Leviathan:

Forms

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more unweighty Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unweighty Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

unpersuasive · unconvincing