WEIGHING Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

weighing

verb

present participle of weigh

as in mattering

to be of importance evidence that will weigh heavily against the defendant

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as in pondering

to give serious and careful thought to weighed the options for weeks before making a decision

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Recent Examples of weighing Police described Taylor as a Black male standing approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. —

Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026 By the 2010s a typical car carried 100 to 150 of these ECUs, stitched together by four to six kilometers of copper wiring weighing 40 to 60 kilograms, the third-heaviest component in many vehicles. —

Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 For patients weighing the long-term implications of starting, stopping or cycling on and off these medications, the review suggests the metabolic stakes of regain may be less catastrophic than feared. —

Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 Since 2013, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s python research and removal program has removed 1,750 pythons weighing more than 53,000 pounds from Southwest Florida. —

Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026 The Conservancy’s python capture program has been running since 2013, resulting in the removal of 1,750 pythons weighing more than 53,000 pounds, and that’s just from a 200-square-mile area. —

Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026 While black bears are the smallest bear in North America, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife, males can get up to about 500 pounds, with most bears weighing between 100 and 400. —

Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026 If anything, a personal matter could be weighing over the dynamic of your exchange. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026 The marsupials can live up to six years in the wild, with males weighing as much as 30 pounds and standing 1 foot tall at the shoulder, according to Tasmania's environment department. —

CBS News, 4 June 2026

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Intent stops mattering once a figure can close a deal.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
And so my surreal day-to-day, a regular life broken up by suspensions of my rights, stopped mattering.

— Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026