ponderous

/'pɔndərəs/
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ponderous

The elephant moved with a ponderous gait across the savanna.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Slow and clumsy because of great weight: Describes something that moves or acts in a slow, heavy, and awkward manner due to its mass.
    • Dull, laborious, or excessively solemn: Describes something, like speech, writing, or a task, that is boring, overly serious, and lacking in grace or lightness.
Examples of Usage

  • Describing physical heaviness and slowness:

    • The elephant's ponderous steps shook the ground.
    • They struggled to lift the ponderous antique chest.

  • Describing dullness or laboriousness:

    • The professor's ponderous lecture made the students drowsy.
    • The report was written in a ponderous style, difficult to get through.
Advanced Usage
  • "ponderous with": weighed down or made slow by something.
    • His mind was ponderous with worry.
  • Used to imply a metaphorical heaviness beyond the physical.
    • The ponderous bureaucracy delayed the project for months.
Variants and Related Words
  • Ponderously (adverb): in a slow, heavy, or dull manner.
    • The official spoke ponderously for over an hour.
  • Ponderousness (noun): the quality of being ponderous.
    • The ponderousness of the legal document was frustrating.
Synonyms
  • Cumbersome: Difficult to handle or use because of size or weight.
  • Lumbering: Moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
  • Labored: Done with great effort; lacking ease or grace.
  • Tedious: Too long, slow, or dull.
Antonyms
  • Nimble: Quick and light in movement or action.
  • Agile: Able to move quickly and easily.
  • Lively: Full of life and energy.
  • Light: Not heavy; gentle or entertaining.
Related Idioms and Phrases
  • A ponderous tome: Refers to a very large, heavy, and often dull book.
    • He pulled a ponderous tome from the library shelf.
  • Ponderous machinery: Can refer literally to heavy equipment or metaphorically to a slow, complex system.
    • The ponderous machinery of government ground to a halt.
ponderous

The elephant moved with a ponderous gait across the savanna.

Adjective
  1. labored and dull
    • a ponderous speech
  2. having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
    • a ponderous stone
    • a ponderous burden
    • ponderous weapons
  3. 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

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