Deadweight [noun]
Definition of Deadweight:
burden, pressure
Synonyms of Deadweight:
● Task
● Weight
● Duty
● Onus
● Tax
● Drag
● Cumber
● Charge
● Drain
● Incubus
● Trouble
● Trust
● Worry
● Care
Opposite/Antonyms of Deadweight:
Sentence/Example of Deadweight:
Yet the power (so defined as horse-power) required to raise a deadweight of 20 lbs.
On the completion of these he was asked by his owner to take command of a barque of about 600 tons deadweight.
It was the sudden release of both the keel and deadweight of the projectile that had caused R19 to shoot up to the surface.
The remainder were freighters, averaging about 5,000 deadweight tons each.
In all his movements Bering was hampered by this academical deadweight.
Blindly, I felt for the buttons on my dress, and buttoning I sank back in sleep again—the deadweight sleep of utter exhaustion.
In January she was loaded with 2,500 tons deadweight, and sailed for Rangoon.