About The Word Ponderous
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Ponderous
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Ponderous: all thumbs | arid | awkward | barren | big | blah | blank | bloodless | blunderheaded | blundering | bombastic | boorish | boring | bulky | bumbling | bungling | butterfingered | careless | characterless | clownish | clumsy | clumsy-fisted | cold | colorless | contrary | cramped | crosswise | cumbersome | cumbrous | dead | dismal | draggy | drearisome | dreary | dry | dryasdust | dull | dusty | effete | elephantine | empty | etiolated | fade | fat | fingers all thumbs | flat | forced | formal | fumbling | gauche | gawkish | gawky | graceless | grandiloquent | guinde | halting | ham-fisted | ham-handed | heavy | heavy-handed | heavyweight | hefty | ho-hum | hollow | huge | hulking | hulky | impractical | inane | inconvenient | inelegant | inexcitable | inflated | inkhorn | insipid | jejune | labored | laborious | large | Latinate | leaden | left-hand | left-handed | lifeless | long-winded | loutish | low-spirited | lubberly | lumbering | lumpish | lumpy | maladroit | massive | massy | oafish | overdone | overweight | pale | pallid | pedestrian | perverse | plodding | pointless | poky | pompous | prolix | sesquipedalian | sloppy | slow | solemn | spiritless | sterile | stiff | stilted | stodgy | stuffy | superficial | tasteless | tedious | tiresome | turgid | uncouth | ungainly | ungraceful | unhandy | unlively | unmanageable | unwieldy | vapid | verbose | weighty | windy | wooden | wordy 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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