Heft
noun
The weight of someone or something.
The heft of the box surprised me.
Often appears as...
- considerable heft
- surprising heft
noun
The ability to influence or control situations.
With his experience, he brought considerable heft to the team.
Often appears as...
- considerable heft
- political heft
Usage tips
Approving
verb
To lift or carry something heavy.
He hefted his backpack onto his shoulders.
Often appears as...
- heft a bag
- heft a load
verb
To judge the weight of something by lifting it.
He hefted the package to check if it was heavy enough.
Often appears as...
- heft a package
- heft a bag
noun
The weight of someone or something.
The heft of the box surprised me.
Often appears as...
- considerable heft
- surprising heft
noun
The ability to influence or control situations.
With his experience, he brought considerable heft to the team.
Often appears as...
- considerable heft
- political heft
Usage tips
Approving
verb
To lift or carry something heavy.
He hefted his backpack onto his shoulders.
Often appears as...
- heft a bag
- heft a load
verb
To judge the weight of something by lifting it.
He hefted the package to check if it was heavy enough.
Often appears as...
- heft a package
- heft a bag
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Surprising Weight
Used to express unexpected heaviness of objects, not generally for light items.
Despite its small size, the statue had some heft to it.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Presence
Can suggest an object's size gives it a strong, noticeable presence.
The old oak tree's heft dominated the garden.
Pro Tip 1/2Surprising Weight
Used to express unexpected heaviness of objects, not generally for light items.
Despite its small size, the statue had some heft to it.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Presence
Can suggest an object's size gives it a strong, noticeable presence.
The old oak tree's heft dominated the garden.
Pro Tip 1/2Surprising Weight
Used to express unexpected heaviness of objects, not generally for light items.
Despite its small size, the statue had some heft to it.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Presence
Can suggest an object's size gives it a strong, noticeable presence.
The old oak tree's heft dominated the garden.
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Video examples
Stuart Firestein: The...
We just jam a whole bunch of facts down their throats over here and then they puke it up on an exam over here and everybody goes home with no added intellectual heft whatsoever. This can't possibly continue to go on. So what do we do? Well the geneticists, I have to say, have an interesting maxim they live by.
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Live from Mars 360° PIPE...
stunning a dream it's the whole set we're off to working in half rooms where the walls ripped off and cameras poked through and when you're trying to find an emotional mindset working on Mars it really helps to have a set like this that's complete with heft yeah feels like we have something to work
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Artemisia Gentileschi:...
Her body has a heft that makes the action believable, and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison.
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Into Darkness by Bridget...
across your surfaces block from view by statins huge heft u3 plus so much more billions of kilometers into your blackness deep into a dark so dark we can only dream to know exactly how far this darkness goes
Video examples
Stuart Firestein: The...
We just jam a whole bunch of facts down their throats over here and then they puke it up on an exam over here and everybody goes home with no added intellectual heft whatsoever. This can't possibly continue to go on. So what do we do? Well the geneticists, I have to say, have an interesting maxim they live by.
Video examples
Live from Mars 360° PIPE...
stunning a dream it's the whole set we're off to working in half rooms where the walls ripped off and cameras poked through and when you're trying to find an emotional mindset working on Mars it really helps to have a set like this that's complete with heft yeah feels like we have something to work
Video examples
Artemisia Gentileschi:...
Her body has a heft that makes the action believable, and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison.
Video examples
Into Darkness by Bridget...
across your surfaces block from view by statins huge heft u3 plus so much more billions of kilometers into your blackness deep into a dark so dark we can only dream to know exactly how far this darkness goes
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Heywood Broun
American Journalist
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination.
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Richard K. Morgan
English Author
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
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Jesse Kellerman
American Novelist
I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.
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Laura van den Berg
American Writer
We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon.
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Eugene Kennedy
American Psychologist
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
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William Safire
American Author
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
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Simon Armitage
British Poet
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
Quote examples
Heywood Broun
American Journalist
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
Quote examples
Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
Quote examples
Robin Sloan
American Author
When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination.
Quote examples
Richard K. Morgan
English Author
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
Quote examples
Jesse Kellerman
American Novelist
I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.
Quote examples
Laura van den Berg
American Writer
We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon.
Quote examples
Eugene Kennedy
American Psychologist
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
Quote examples
William Safire
American Author
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
Quote examples
Simon Armitage
British Poet
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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