deadweight

Meaning of deadweight

noun
  1. Unremitting heavy weight that does not move.
  2. The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty.
  3. Dead load.
  4. That which is useless or excess; that which slows something down.
    She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter.

Information about deadweight

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of deadweight is: deadweights.
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Hyphenation of deadweight

dead-weight

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • deadweight is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with deadweight

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