ponderous 音标拼音: [p'ɑndɚəs]
a . 沉重的,笨重的,冗长的,沉闷的
沈重的,笨重的,冗长的,沈闷的
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 " [
synonym :
{
heavy }, {
lumbering }, {
ponderous }]
2 :
having great mass and weight and unwieldiness ; "
a ponderous stone "; "
a ponderous burden "; "
ponderous weapons "
3 :
labored and dull ; "
a ponderous speech "
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
The sepulcher . . .
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws . --
Shak .
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2 .
Important ;
momentous ;
forcible . "
Your more ponderous and settled project ." --
Shak .
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3 .
Heavy ;
dull ;
wanting ;
lightless or spirit ;
as ,
a ponderous style ;
a ponderous joke .
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1913 Webster ]
{
Ponderous spar } (
Min .),
heavy spar ,
or barytes .
See {
Barite }.
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1913 Webster ]
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "
ponderous ":
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
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PONDEROUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster We adopted "ponderous" with the literal sense "heavy" from Anglo-French ponderus in the 15th century, and early on we appended a figurative sense of "weighty," that is, "serious" or "important "
PONDEROUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Ponderous definition: of great weight; heavy; massive See examples of PONDEROUS used in a sentence
PONDEROUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary PONDEROUS definition: 1 slow and awkward because of being very heavy or large: 2 If a book, speech, or style of… Learn more
Ponderous - definition of ponderous by The Free Dictionary ponderous (ˈpɒndərəs) adj 1 of great weight; heavy; huge 2 (esp of movement) lacking ease or lightness; awkward, lumbering, or graceless
ponderous adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . . Definition of ponderous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
ponderous, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary ponderous, adj meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
ponderous - Wiktionary, the free dictionary ponderous (comparative more ponderous, superlative most ponderous) Heavy, massive, weighty quotations
PONDEROUS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary Ponderous writing or speech is very serious, uses more words than necessary, and is rather dull
Ponderous - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com When you call Frankenstein's monster ponderous, it's not because he likes to ponder the great questions of life It's because he moves like a Mack truck, only slower and less gracefully
PONDEROUS Synonyms: 206 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster Some common synonyms of ponderous are cumbersome, cumbrous, heavy, and weighty While all these words mean "having great weight," ponderous implies having great weight because of size and massiveness with resulting great inertia