'Ponderous' definitions:
Definition of 'ponderous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous]
adjective
Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
adjective
Labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"
Definition of 'Ponderous'
From: GCIDE
- Ponderous \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. [1913 Webster]
- The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. [1913 Webster]
- Ponderous spar (Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ponderous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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