Hefty and Ineffectual

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Hefty adjective - Having great weight.

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Ineffectual is an antonym for hefty in big topic.

Nearby Words: heft, hefted, hefting

Ineffectual adjective - Not producing the desired result.

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Hefty is an antonym for ineffectual.

Nearby Words: ineffective, ineffectively

So he takes out his pipe — his big, hefty pipe like all Germans have — and shows it to the French border patrol, who are stunned because they have such little, ineffectual pipes.

Source: Literature / The Woman with the Velvet Necklace
And Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Junior has a huge missile launcher that can transform into a hefty baseball bat.

Source: Morph Weapon

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