Dictionary Definition
ponderous adj
1 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]
2 having great mass and weight and unwieldiness;
"a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous
weapons"
3 labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"
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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
ponderousTranslations
clumsy and unwieldy because of its weight
- Finnish: rasittava, raskas
extremely dull or boring
- Finnish: pitkäpiimäinen, uuvuttava
slow and heavy
- Finnish: kömpelö, raskas
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Latinate, 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, 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