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ponderous
adjective
(pon-der-ous)
slow and laborious because of weight
Synonyms:
heavy
,
lumbering
,
Examples:
Ponderous prehistoric beasts.
A ponderous yawn.
ponderous
adjective
(pon-der-ous)
having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
Examples:
A ponderous stone.
A ponderous burden.
Ponderous weapons.
ponderous
adjective
(pon-der-ous)
labored and dull
Examples:
A ponderous speech.
Words Related to
ponderous
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lumbering
,
uninteresting
,
heavy
,
heavy-footed
,
clumsy
,
weighty
,
unwieldy
,
cumbersome
,
tiresome
,
slow
,
burdensome
,
onerous
,
damning
,
hefty
,
heavyweight
,
severe
,
major
,
heavy-duty
,
heavy-handed
,
pesant
,
leaden
,
turgid
,
ungainly
,
clunky
,
lugubrious
,
overlong
,
tedious
,
overwrought
,
pedantic
,
stilted
,
portentous
,
wordy
,
stodgy
,
dull
,
pompous
,
pretentious
,
wearisome
,
melodramatic
,
stolid
,
languid
,
inelegant
,
trite
,
monotonous
,
unimaginative
,
laborious
,
prosaic
,
bombastic
,
draggy
,
humorless
,
insipid
,
flabby
,
uninspired
,
languorous
,
talky
,
overfamiliar
,
disjointed
,
soporific
,
prolix
,
stagey
,
uninventive
,
digressive
,
winded
,
unfocussed
,
overdetermined
,
slapdash
,
expository
,
interminable
,
florid
,
unpoetic
,
sententious
,
mawkish
,
maudlin
,
declamatory
,
obtuse
,
unconvincing
,
funereal
,
stagy
,
affectless
,
didactic
,
artless
,
passionless
,
elegiac
,
repetitious
,
bathetic
,
unaffecting
,
snappy
,
formulaic
,
unhurried
,
hackneyed
,
flaccid
,
inexpressive
,
unadventurous
,
droll
,
unentertaining
,
unshapely
,
scattershot
,
sprightly
,
toneless
,
aphoristic
,
muddled
,
ponderous
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