Antonyms for makeweight

Grammar : Noun

Spell : meyk-weyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmeɪkˌweɪt

Definition of makeweight

Origin : also make-weight, 1690s, "small quantity of something added to make the total reach a certain weight," from make (v.) + weight.
MAKE WEIGHT. A small candle: a term applied to a little slender man. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]

As in complement : noun companion, counterpart

Example sentences :

"I'll throw in two for makeweight," said the woman with her good-natured look.
Extract from : « A Little Princess » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

They are men of prudence, and persuade E. to go with them, as a makeweight.
Extract from : « Some Private Views » by James Payn

Into scales of doubt, equally balanced, he should be ready to throw his lyre, as a makeweight.
Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. » by Various

They will all wish to make of us a makeweight candle, when they are making out their pounds.
Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) » by Various

It didn't really matter; his respectability seemed more than a makeweight for slighted syntax.
Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan

They want to use you as a makeweight in their game of wresting from the Russian workers their dearly-won liberty.
Extract from : « Communism and Christianism » by William Montgomery Brown

I have no sword; and if I had, in this case, most certainly, I would not use it as a makeweight in political reasoning.
Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke

Yon apple was meant to live an' bear fruit; the bonny apple's juist the makeweight.
Extract from : « Captivity » by M. Leonora Eyles

They therefore subscribed a half-dollar piece each, in coin, as a sort of makeweight.
Extract from : « On the Spanish Main » by John Masefield

Hitherto the supernatural has always been the makeweight of human ignorance; is it, in truth, this and nothing else?
Extract from : « My Path to Atheism » by Annie Besant

Synonyms for makeweight

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