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Outweigh Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Outweigh has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

be heavier than

"The heavy steel beam easily outweighed the light wooden planks when they were placed on the scale."

2

weigh more heavily

"these considerations outweigh our wishes"

3

To exceed in weight or mass.

"The ancient stone statue outweighed all the modern sculptures combined by a significant margin."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
surpass predominate
Rhyming Words
igh high yigh tigh migh nigh sigh righ weigh neigh thigh bligh leigh heigh haigh tonigh besigh sleigh aweigh neligh
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