Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Gravity

Nouns
  • gravity, gravitation
  • weight
  • heaviness etc. adj.
  • specific gravity
  • pondorosity, pressure, load
  • burden, burthen
  • ballast, counterpoise
  • lump of, mass of, weight of. lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion. weighing, ponderation, trutination
  • weights
  • avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight
  • grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod. [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram
  • nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram. [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge
  • spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance
  • postal scale, baby scale. [Science of gravity] statics.
Verbs
  • be heavy etc. adj.
  • gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load. [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adjectives
  • weighty
  • weighing etc. v.
  • heavy as lead
  • ponderous, ponderable
  • lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome
  • cumbrous, unwieldy, massive. incumbent, superincumbent.