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Ponderous

Ponderous Meaning & Definition
Ponderous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ponderous?

[adj] having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
[adj] slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
[adj] labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ponderous: heavy | heavy-footed | lumbering | uninteresting

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See Also |

Ponderous In Webster's Dictionary

\Pon"der*ous\, a. [L. ponderosus, from pondus, -eris, a weight: cf. F. pond['e]reux. See {Ponder}.] 1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. --Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. ``Your more ponderous and settled project.'' --Shak. 3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. {Ponderous spar} (Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See {Barite}.

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