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  • 1. heft
  • Rhymes with Heft
  • Heft in a sentence
  • Quotes about Heft
  • 2. heft
  • 3. heft
Table of Contents
  • 1. heft
  • Rhymes with Heft
  • Heft in a sentence
  • Quotes about Heft
  • 2. heft
  • 3. heft
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology

1. heft

verb. ['ˈhɛft'] lift or elevate.

Synonyms

  • weigh the anchor
  • heft up
  • upheave
  • heave up
  • weigh anchor
  • lift

Antonyms

  • worsen
  • begin
  • unimportance
  • interestingness

Etymology

  • hefð (Old Norse)
  • hafa (Old Norse)

Rhymes with Heft

  • kreft
  • cleft
  • bereft
  • tefft
  • neft
  • left
  • deft

Sentences with heft


1. Noun, singular or mass
It has the look and heft of marble plus all of the pros of quartz.

Quotes about heft


1. 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.
- Eugene Kennedy

2. There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.
- Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

2. heft

noun. ['ˈhɛft'] the property of being large in mass.

Synonyms

  • ponderosity
  • weightiness
  • ponderousness
  • massiveness
  • heaviness

Antonyms

  • fall
  • deflate
  • stand still
  • lower

Etymology

  • hefð (Old Norse)
  • hafa (Old Norse)

3. heft

verb. ['ˈhɛft'] test the weight of something by lifting it.

Synonyms

  • weigh
  • lift

Antonyms

  • smallness
  • ease
  • narrowness

Etymology

  • hefð (Old Norse)
  • hafa (Old Norse)
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