'Ponderousness' definitions:
Definition of 'ponderousness'
From: WordNet
noun
An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition" [syn: ponderousness, heaviness]
noun
Definition of 'Ponderousness'
From: GCIDE
- Ponderousness \Pon"der*ous*ness\, n. The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ponderousness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aridity,
- avoirdupois,
- awkwardness,
- bad taste,
- barbarism,
- barbarousness,
- barrenness,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- bloodlessness,
- bombasticness,
- boorishness,
- bulkiness,
- bumblingness,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- characterlessness,
- clownishness,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- colorlessness,
- crudeness,
- cumbersomeness,
- cumbrousness,
- deadness,
- deadweight,
- dismalness,
- dragginess,
- dreariness,
- dryness,
- dullness,
- dustiness,
- dysphemism,
- effeteness,
- emptiness,
- etiolation,
- fatness,
- flatness,
- gawkiness,
- gawkishness,
- Gothicism,
- gracelessness,
- gravity,
- gross weight,
- grossness,
- ham-handedness,
- handful of thumbs,
- harshness,
- heaviness,
- heavy-handedness,
- heft,
- heftiness,
- hollowness,
- hulkiness,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- impracticality,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inanity,
- inconcinnity,
- inconvenience,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- inexcitability,
- infelicity,
- insipidity,
- insipidness,
- jejunity,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- leadenness,
- left-handedness,
- lifelessness,
- liveweight,
- loutishness,
- lowness of spirit,
- lubberliness,
- lumpishness,
- maladroitness,
- massiveness,
- neat weight,
- net,
- net weight,
- oafishness,
- overbalance,
- overweight,
- paleness,
- pallor,
- pointlessness,
- pokiness,
- pompousness,
- ponderability,
- ponderosity,
- poor diction,
- poundage,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- slipshod construction,
- slowness,
- solemnity,
- spiritlessness,
- sterility,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- stodginess,
- stuffiness,
- superficiality,
- tastelessness,
- tediousness,
- tonnage,
- turgidity,
- uncouthness,
- underweight,
- uneuphoniousness,
- ungainliness,
- ungracefulness,
- unhandiness,
- uninterestingness,
- unliveliness,
- unmanageability,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unwieldiness,
- vapidity,
- vapidness,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- woodenness