OUTWEIGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outweigh mean? 

• OUTWEIGH (verb)
  The verb OUTWEIGH has 2 senses:

1. be heavier than

2. weigh more heavily

  Familiarity information: OUTWEIGH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTWEIGH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outweigh    ... he / she / it outweighs   
Past simple: outweighed   
Past participle: outweighed   
-ing form: outweighing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be heavier than

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "outweigh" is one way to...):

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam cannot outweigh Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Weigh more heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

outbalance; outweigh; overbalance; preponderate

Context example:

these considerations outweigh our wishes

Hypernyms (to "outweigh" is one way to...):

dominate; predominate; prevail; reign; rule (be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

A question about how certain an individual is that the good things about a medication outweigh the bad things.

(Certainty that Good Outweighs the Bad Things About Medication, NCI Thesaurus)

Her satisfaction in Mr Elliot outweighed all the plague of Mrs Clay.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The new study shows that ice thickness far outweighs any other factor in regulating flow speed over the long term.

(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)

“Though we should be rightly concerned about the emergence of resistance overall for this condition, the benefits of the 10-day regimen greatly outweigh the risks.”

(No benefit to shortening ear infection treatment, NIH)

Dark matter is an invisible substance that dominates matter in the universe, outweighing the regular matter that makes up people, planets and stars.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

The deep biosphere: an underground ecosystem of bacteria and multi-celled organisms vastly outweighing all of human life on the surface.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs

(Cost/Benefit Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) found that the medical benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks.

(Circumcision, NIH)

Now, for the first time, researchers have quantified and compared these issues in terms of the economics of the entire production system to determine if the benefits of biofuel corn outweigh the costs.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

A lover evidently, for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must feel to you?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)