English

Adjective

weightsome ‎(comparative more weightsome, superlative most weightsome)

1. Of, pertaining to, possessing, or characterised by weight; weighty; weightful; heavy; grave; grievous.
   • 1887, The American Magazine - Volume 6 - Page 406:

     On next meeting Mrs. Ottarson, she permitted no semblance of complaint or of adverse criticism to evidence the weightsome discouragement that oppressed her.

   • 1912, Arthur Wellington Brayley, ‎Arthur Wilson Tarbell, ‎Joe Mitchell Chapple, National magazine - Volume 35 - Page 297:

     "Fate-dispenser," Medford Browne was wont to ask her on occasion, "how canst thou be so blithe when so weightsome is thy day's allotment of labor?"