Makeweight [noun]
Definition of Makeweight:
companion, counterpart
Synonyms of Makeweight:
● Accompaniment
● Consummation
● Rest
● Supplement
● Enhancement
● Total
● Completion
● Capacity
● Entirety
● Totality
● Quota
● Augmentation
● Aggregate
● Remainder
● Correlate
● Counterpart
● Addition
● Correlative
● Balance
● Enrichment
● Filler
● Pendant
● Finishing touch
● Rounding-off
Opposite/Antonyms of Makeweight:
● Fraction
● Part
● Base
● Decrease
● Core
Sentence/Example of Makeweight:
They want to use you as a makeweight in their game of wresting from the Russian workers their dearly-won liberty.
I carefully noted all flaws, however slight, in each pipkin of his warehouse and set all such damaged goods aside as a makeweight.
It opened without the intended makeweight, and the court of France was less inclined to make concessions for a peace.
And then, as a makeweight in the bargain, the venal sacristan placed in my hands the head of Charlemagne.
Hitherto the supernatural has always been the makeweight of human ignorance; is it, in truth, this and nothing else?
They therefore subscribed a half-dollar piece each, in coin, as a sort of makeweight.
I have no sword; and if I had, in this case, most certainly, I would not use it as a makeweight in political reasoning.
They will all wish to make of us a makeweight candle, when they are making out their pounds.
It didn't really matter; his respectability seemed more than a makeweight for slighted syntax.
Yon apple was meant to live an' bear fruit; the bonny apple's juist the makeweight.