Synonyms of the word

heft

• n. (uncountable) Weight.
• n. Heaviness, the feel of weight.
• n. (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
• n. An animal that has become hefted thus.
• n. (West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
• n. The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
• n. (US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.
• v. (transitive) To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
• v. (transitive) To test the weight of something by lifting it.
• v. (transitive, Northern England and Scotland) (of a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) To become…
• v. (obsolete) past participle of to heave.
• n. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
• n. A part of a serial publication.

heave

• v. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
• v. (transitive) To throw, cast.
• v. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
• v. (transitive) To utter with effort.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or…
• v. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
• v. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
• v. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
• v. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
• n. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
• n. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves,…
• n. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
• n. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time…

heaviness

• n. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
• n. (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.

heftiness

• n. The property of being hefty.

librate

• n. (obsolete) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.
• v. To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

massiveness

• n. The property of being massive.

ponderosity

• n. The quality of requiring extensive thought.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; heaviness.

ponderousness

• n. The quality of being ponderous.

weigh

• v. (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
• v. (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
• v. (transitive) To consider a subject.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain weight.
• v. (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
• v. (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
• v. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
• v. (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

weightiness

• n. The quality of being weighty.