ponderous English

Meaning ponderous meaning

What does ponderous mean?

ponderous

— adjective (= heavy, lumbering) 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

— adjective having great mass and weight and unwieldiness a ponderous stone a ponderous burden ponderous weapons

— adjective labored and dull a ponderous speech

Synonyms ponderous synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ponderous?

ponderous English » English

heavy

clumsy

weighty

cumbersome

unwieldy

massive

lumbering

lumpish

heavily-laden

dull

cumbrous

bulky

awkward

unportable

unmanageable

onerous

leaden

heavy-footed

boring

weighted

wearying

wearisome

wearing

waterlogged

untactful

unskilled

unshapely

unready

uninteresting

ungraceful

ungainly

undomestic

tough

toiling

tiring

tardily

stodgy

slack

serious

saturnine

relaxedly

pregnant

plodding

painful

maladroit

loosely

long-winded

logy

lifeless

labouring

Topics ponderous topics

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States Big Thick

Fat person

• What words describe someone who is fat?
  fat overweight big large portly hefty thickset corpulent fleshly heavy paunchy ponderous roly-poly rotund heavy-set

States Big Weigh

Heavy

• What words describe something that is heavy?
  heavy burdensome cumbersome cumbrous heavyweight hefty lumpish massive overweight ponderous unwieldy weighty