weigh

weigh is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
2. transitive verb. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
3. transitive verb. To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
4. transitive verb. To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
5. transitive verb. To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
6. transitive verb. To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
7. transitive verb. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
8. intransitive verb. To have weight; to be heavy.
9. intransitive verb. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
10. intransitive verb. To bear heavily; to press hard.
11. intransitive verb. To judge; to estimate.
12. noun. A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
13. verb. show consideration for; take into account

    "You must consider her age"

    "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"

    Synonyms: consider, count

14. verb. have weight; have import, carry weight

    "It does not matter much"

    Synonyms: count, matter

15. verb. to be oppressive or burdensome, "Something pressed on his mind"

    "weigh heavily on the mind"

    Synonyms: press

16. verb. determine the weight of

    "The butcher weighed the chicken"

    Synonyms: librate

17. verb. have a certain weight

Synonyms

consider, count, matter, press, librate

Common word forms

weighs, weighed, weigher, weighing, weighable, weighment

Words from these letters

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