Definitions for top-heavy

top-heavy top-heav·y

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IPA: /ˈtɒpˌhɛv i/

Top-Heavy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in top-heavy (-aehoptvy).

Definitions for top-heavy

adjective

  1. having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
  2. relatively much heavier or larger above the center or waist than below:
  3. Finance. having a financial structure overburdened with securities that have priority in the payment of dividends. overcapitalized.

Origin of top-heavy

First recorded in 1525-35; top1 + heavy

Examples for top-heavy

I still observe the top-heavy "Household Words" in the title.

It is so aggravatingly shallow, so infernally hot to hold, and so top-heavy.

It was almost a miracle that the top-heavy sled did not upset.

I must have a coachman with a top-heavy wig, and horses so big that they frighten me.

But the weight of the stones makes him top-heavy; he falls in and is drowned.

And your skull will be so top-heavy with prudence, that it will be difficult for you to keep on your feet.

top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Like most overgrown creatures he was top-heavy and lethargic and very humble-minded.

The top-heavy youth closed his magazine and unlocked a brain-cell.

"And you're getting it so high it's top-heavy," cautioned Mrs. Drelmer.

Word Value for top-heavy
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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