weigh on

1. 1.

   be oppressive or disheartening to

   Synonymsweigh down

   Broadersadden

Questions about weigh on

What does weigh on mean?

weigh on means "be oppressive or disheartening to".

What is another word for weigh on?

Close synonyms include weigh down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is weigh on a common word?

weigh on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.