Definition of ponderous in English:

ponderous

adjective ˈpɒnd(ə)rəsˈpɑnd(ə)rəs

1Slow and clumsy because of great weight.
缓慢的，笨拙的
a swarthy, ponderous giant of a man
Example sentencesExamples
- At times in that second stanza, Glasgow plodded around like one of the infamous local vehicles run on illegal cooking oil: wheezy, ponderous and not too reliable.
- That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
- Certainly his deft karate skills have become slow and ponderous.
- One of the rules of radio: nimble and facile is preferable to ponderous and slow.
- The Nissan Patrol drives as it looks - heavy and a little ponderous.
- Arthur Thatford was the slow, ponderous sort, and his sister little better.
- I'll box and battle him, and make him look slow and ponderous.
- In addition to hauling their own weight, the ponderous vehicles must plow about 17 tons of air out of their way every mile!
- The superior fitness and organisation within the Malton side was always going to cause problems for a ponderous and ageing visiting side who had little to offer apart from a big front row.
- He was too slow, too ponderous; he had a big, heavy punch, but there was nothing spontaneous about him in the ring.
- So often last season, those two provided the creative spark going forward, whereas the current side looks ponderous and predictable in the final third by comparison.
- As per the vehicle's steering and handling, it is generally ponderous and has a slow response to steering inputs.
- Joaquin came in for the ponderous Luis Enrique and made such an impact that one wondered how he was not preferred to the veteran Barcelona player before now.
- The jury remains out on whether the ponderous Blanc can replace the discarded Jaap Stam and the champions have leaked seven goals in the four games he has played.
- He had a pretty good beard going and he moved with a slow, ponderous deliberation, like he was reaching the end of a long journey.
- ‘A lot of big fighters are slow and ponderous, but I apply myself on my speed as opposed to power,’ he said.
- Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier.
- Stansfield had lost none of his ability in winning the ball in the air but on the ground he was slow and ponderous and a number of defensive errors became attributed to him.
- After Jurassic Park, the monster looked so slow and ponderous it was pretty funny.
- His jumping is crisp and accurate at this game, whereas he can often be slow and ponderous over fences.
Synonyms
clumsy, slow, heavy, awkward, lumbering, slow-moving, cumbersome, heavy-footed, ungainly, graceless, maladroit, uncoordinated, blundering, like a bull in a china shop
informal clodhopping, clunky
archaic lubberly
rare cumbrous
1. 1.1 (especially of speech or writing) dull or laborious.
  the show is loaded down with ponderous one-liners
  Example sentencesExamples
  The price is obscene, and I often find the typical article… ponderous.
  That we heard Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, saying it's too slow, it's too ponderous.
  No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul.
  House of the Spirits was stilted and ponderous and written with a poor command of the nuances of English.
  After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie.
  The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters.
  The response of university authorities has been slow and ponderous.
  Government-by-committee and persistent bureaucratic controls lead to ponderous decision-making.
  This opera is long and ponderous enough, and though there is much depth to plumb, the tempos, to me, must move along.
  Beck's answers are slow and considered, thoughtful to the point of being ponderous.
  Congress had managed to wade through the ponderous 200-page tome.
  The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again.
  The hymn has a heavy, ponderous, sonorous melody that goes all the way back to the chants of the fourth century.
  The courts move in their usual ponderous manner.
  Most contemporary Baptists would find a sermon like this ponderous and pedantic.
  There's no point in comparing the graphic novel Road to Perdition with the respectable though somewhat ponderous movie based on it.
  Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience.
  They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show.
  Her meticulous nature and ponderous pauses would lead to drawn out silences that could terminate any argument in a concise finale, leaving you in no doubt who was right and who was wrong.
  LaGamma's essay in particular is informative without being ponderous.
  Synonyms
  laboured, laborious, dull, awkward, clumsy, forced, stilted, unnatural, artificial, turgid, stodgy, stolid, lifeless, plodding, pedestrian, boring, uninteresting, solemn, serious, tedious, monotonous, dry, dreary, pedantic
  ornate, elaborate, over-elaborate, intricate, convoluted, verbose, long-winded, windy, prolix

Derivatives

ponderosity

noun pɒnd(ə)ˈrɒsɪti

The chilling arrogance of technological change will enlighten the modern political climate and austere reverberations of gender identification disorders will punctuate spiritual bombastic ponderosity.
Example sentencesExamples
- TSET is a platitudinous parcel of impenetrable ponderosity, regrettably but manifestly lacking in clarifying conciseness or concatenated cogency; in short, too many big words.

ponderously

adverb ˈpɒnd(ə)rəsliˈpɑnd(ə)rəsli

Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
Example sentencesExamples
- And at that very instant something did, then moved slowly, ponderously but very heavily upstream.
- Instead of sweating underneath monstrous loads, moving as slowly and ponderously as beasts of burden, we cruised the trail like coyotes, heads up, alert, eyes on the horizon.
- Slowly, ponderously this great armada moved across the Channel.
- As I said, the exhibition has set out deliberately, and even ponderously, to enlarge our image of Turkishness and to reveal far more about the history of these varied peoples than concentrating on Ottoman art would have achieved.

ponderousness

noun ˈpɒnd(ə)rəsnəsˈpɑnd(ə)rəsnəs

In conveying so much about Adams's goodness, in vivid and smooth prose, McCullough slights Adams's intellectual ambitions, his brilliance and his ponderousness, his pettiness and his sometimes disabling pessimism.
Example sentencesExamples
- Customers are free to meander around the rails as they wish, and comfortable armchairs are often supplied to facilitate a little sartorial ponderousness.
- Nancy and Miller exhibited the painfully protracted, predictable ponderousness which has become the hallmark of deconstruction in its senescent phase.
- The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion - the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text - refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say.
- Gibson's ponderousness, however, is different, born not from the traditional Hollywood fear of offending religious sensibilities, but rather from the distinctive character of his own commitment.

Origin

Late Middle English: via French from Latin ponderosus, from pondus, ponder- 'weight'.

Definition of ponderous in US English:

ponderous

adjectiveˈpänd(ə)rəsˈpɑnd(ə)rəs

1Slow and clumsy because of great weight.
缓慢的，笨拙的
her footsteps were heavy and ponderous
她的脚步沉重而缓慢。
Example sentencesExamples
- That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
- ‘A lot of big fighters are slow and ponderous, but I apply myself on my speed as opposed to power,’ he said.
- I'll box and battle him, and make him look slow and ponderous.
- The Nissan Patrol drives as it looks - heavy and a little ponderous.
- So often last season, those two provided the creative spark going forward, whereas the current side looks ponderous and predictable in the final third by comparison.
- In addition to hauling their own weight, the ponderous vehicles must plow about 17 tons of air out of their way every mile!
- As per the vehicle's steering and handling, it is generally ponderous and has a slow response to steering inputs.
- Arthur Thatford was the slow, ponderous sort, and his sister little better.
- He was too slow, too ponderous; he had a big, heavy punch, but there was nothing spontaneous about him in the ring.
- His jumping is crisp and accurate at this game, whereas he can often be slow and ponderous over fences.
- He had a pretty good beard going and he moved with a slow, ponderous deliberation, like he was reaching the end of a long journey.
- Certainly his deft karate skills have become slow and ponderous.
- Stansfield had lost none of his ability in winning the ball in the air but on the ground he was slow and ponderous and a number of defensive errors became attributed to him.
- Joaquin came in for the ponderous Luis Enrique and made such an impact that one wondered how he was not preferred to the veteran Barcelona player before now.
- Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier.
- The superior fitness and organisation within the Malton side was always going to cause problems for a ponderous and ageing visiting side who had little to offer apart from a big front row.
- One of the rules of radio: nimble and facile is preferable to ponderous and slow.
- After Jurassic Park, the monster looked so slow and ponderous it was pretty funny.
- At times in that second stanza, Glasgow plodded around like one of the infamous local vehicles run on illegal cooking oil: wheezy, ponderous and not too reliable.
- The jury remains out on whether the ponderous Blanc can replace the discarded Jaap Stam and the champions have leaked seven goals in the four games he has played.
Synonyms
clumsy, slow, heavy, awkward, lumbering, slow-moving, cumbersome, heavy-footed, ungainly, graceless, maladroit, uncoordinated, blundering, like a bull in a china shop
1. 1.1 Dull, laborious, or excessively solemn.
  毫无趣味的；费力的；过分庄重的
  Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences
  利兹无法控制自己不说完所有毫无趣味的话。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The hymn has a heavy, ponderous, sonorous melody that goes all the way back to the chants of the fourth century.
  They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show.
  The price is obscene, and I often find the typical article… ponderous.
  House of the Spirits was stilted and ponderous and written with a poor command of the nuances of English.
  LaGamma's essay in particular is informative without being ponderous.
  Government-by-committee and persistent bureaucratic controls lead to ponderous decision-making.
  After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie.
  No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul.
  That we heard Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, saying it's too slow, it's too ponderous.
  Most contemporary Baptists would find a sermon like this ponderous and pedantic.
  This opera is long and ponderous enough, and though there is much depth to plumb, the tempos, to me, must move along.
  The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again.
  Her meticulous nature and ponderous pauses would lead to drawn out silences that could terminate any argument in a concise finale, leaving you in no doubt who was right and who was wrong.
  There's no point in comparing the graphic novel Road to Perdition with the respectable though somewhat ponderous movie based on it.
  Congress had managed to wade through the ponderous 200-page tome.
  Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience.
  The response of university authorities has been slow and ponderous.
  The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters.
  Beck's answers are slow and considered, thoughtful to the point of being ponderous.
  The courts move in their usual ponderous manner.
  Synonyms
  laboured, laborious, dull, awkward, clumsy, forced, stilted, unnatural, artificial, turgid, stodgy, stolid, lifeless, plodding, pedestrian, boring, uninteresting, solemn, serious, tedious, monotonous, dry, dreary, pedantic

Origin

Late Middle English: via French from Latin ponderosus, from pondus, ponder- ‘weight’.

词汇	ponderous
释义	Definition of ponderous in English: ponderous adjective ˈpɒnd(ə)rəsˈpɑnd(ə)rəs 1Slow and clumsy because of great weight. 缓慢的，笨拙的 a swarthy, ponderous giant of a man Example sentencesExamples At times in that second stanza, Glasgow plodded around like one of the infamous local vehicles run on illegal cooking oil: wheezy, ponderous and not too reliable. That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory. Certainly his deft karate skills have become slow and ponderous. One of the rules of radio: nimble and facile is preferable to ponderous and slow. The Nissan Patrol drives as it looks - heavy and a little ponderous. Arthur Thatford was the slow, ponderous sort, and his sister little better. I'll box and battle him, and make him look slow and ponderous. In addition to hauling their own weight, the ponderous vehicles must plow about 17 tons of air out of their way every mile! The superior fitness and organisation within the Malton side was always going to cause problems for a ponderous and ageing visiting side who had little to offer apart from a big front row. He was too slow, too ponderous; he had a big, heavy punch, but there was nothing spontaneous about him in the ring. So often last season, those two provided the creative spark going forward, whereas the current side looks ponderous and predictable in the final third by comparison. As per the vehicle's steering and handling, it is generally ponderous and has a slow response to steering inputs. Joaquin came in for the ponderous Luis Enrique and made such an impact that one wondered how he was not preferred to the veteran Barcelona player before now. The jury remains out on whether the ponderous Blanc can replace the discarded Jaap Stam and the champions have leaked seven goals in the four games he has played. He had a pretty good beard going and he moved with a slow, ponderous deliberation, like he was reaching the end of a long journey. ‘A lot of big fighters are slow and ponderous, but I apply myself on my speed as opposed to power,’ he said. Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier. Stansfield had lost none of his ability in winning the ball in the air but on the ground he was slow and ponderous and a number of defensive errors became attributed to him. After Jurassic Park, the monster looked so slow and ponderous it was pretty funny. His jumping is crisp and accurate at this game, whereas he can often be slow and ponderous over fences. Synonyms clumsy, slow, heavy, awkward, lumbering, slow-moving, cumbersome, heavy-footed, ungainly, graceless, maladroit, uncoordinated, blundering, like a bull in a china shop informal clodhopping, clunky archaic lubberly rare cumbrous 1.1 (especially of speech or writing) dull or laborious. the show is loaded down with ponderous one-liners Example sentencesExamples The price is obscene, and I often find the typical article… ponderous. That we heard Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, saying it's too slow, it's too ponderous. No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul. House of the Spirits was stilted and ponderous and written with a poor command of the nuances of English. After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie. The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters. The response of university authorities has been slow and ponderous. Government-by-committee and persistent bureaucratic controls lead to ponderous decision-making. This opera is long and ponderous enough, and though there is much depth to plumb, the tempos, to me, must move along. Beck's answers are slow and considered, thoughtful to the point of being ponderous. Congress had managed to wade through the ponderous 200-page tome. The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again. The hymn has a heavy, ponderous, sonorous melody that goes all the way back to the chants of the fourth century. The courts move in their usual ponderous manner. Most contemporary Baptists would find a sermon like this ponderous and pedantic. There's no point in comparing the graphic novel Road to Perdition with the respectable though somewhat ponderous movie based on it. Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience. They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show. Her meticulous nature and ponderous pauses would lead to drawn out silences that could terminate any argument in a concise finale, leaving you in no doubt who was right and who was wrong. LaGamma's essay in particular is informative without being ponderous. Synonyms laboured, laborious, dull, awkward, clumsy, forced, stilted, unnatural, artificial, turgid, stodgy, stolid, lifeless, plodding, pedestrian, boring, uninteresting, solemn, serious, tedious, monotonous, dry, dreary, pedantic ornate, elaborate, over-elaborate, intricate, convoluted, verbose, long-winded, windy, prolix Derivatives ponderosity noun pɒnd(ə)ˈrɒsɪti The chilling arrogance of technological change will enlighten the modern political climate and austere reverberations of gender identification disorders will punctuate spiritual bombastic ponderosity. Example sentencesExamples TSET is a platitudinous parcel of impenetrable ponderosity, regrettably but manifestly lacking in clarifying conciseness or concatenated cogency; in short, too many big words. ponderously adverb ˈpɒnd(ə)rəsliˈpɑnd(ə)rəsli Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality. Example sentencesExamples And at that very instant something did, then moved slowly, ponderously but very heavily upstream. Instead of sweating underneath monstrous loads, moving as slowly and ponderously as beasts of burden, we cruised the trail like coyotes, heads up, alert, eyes on the horizon. Slowly, ponderously this great armada moved across the Channel. As I said, the exhibition has set out deliberately, and even ponderously, to enlarge our image of Turkishness and to reveal far more about the history of these varied peoples than concentrating on Ottoman art would have achieved. ponderousness noun ˈpɒnd(ə)rəsnəsˈpɑnd(ə)rəsnəs In conveying so much about Adams's goodness, in vivid and smooth prose, McCullough slights Adams's intellectual ambitions, his brilliance and his ponderousness, his pettiness and his sometimes disabling pessimism. Example sentencesExamples Customers are free to meander around the rails as they wish, and comfortable armchairs are often supplied to facilitate a little sartorial ponderousness. Nancy and Miller exhibited the painfully protracted, predictable ponderousness which has become the hallmark of deconstruction in its senescent phase. The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion - the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text - refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. Gibson's ponderousness, however, is different, born not from the traditional Hollywood fear of offending religious sensibilities, but rather from the distinctive character of his own commitment. Origin Late Middle English: via French from Latin ponderosus, from pondus, ponder- 'weight'. Definition of ponderous in US English: ponderous adjectiveˈpänd(ə)rəsˈpɑnd(ə)rəs 1Slow and clumsy because of great weight. 缓慢的，笨拙的 her footsteps were heavy and ponderous 她的脚步沉重而缓慢。 Example sentencesExamples That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory. ‘A lot of big fighters are slow and ponderous, but I apply myself on my speed as opposed to power,’ he said. I'll box and battle him, and make him look slow and ponderous. The Nissan Patrol drives as it looks - heavy and a little ponderous. So often last season, those two provided the creative spark going forward, whereas the current side looks ponderous and predictable in the final third by comparison. In addition to hauling their own weight, the ponderous vehicles must plow about 17 tons of air out of their way every mile! As per the vehicle's steering and handling, it is generally ponderous and has a slow response to steering inputs. Arthur Thatford was the slow, ponderous sort, and his sister little better. He was too slow, too ponderous; he had a big, heavy punch, but there was nothing spontaneous about him in the ring. His jumping is crisp and accurate at this game, whereas he can often be slow and ponderous over fences. He had a pretty good beard going and he moved with a slow, ponderous deliberation, like he was reaching the end of a long journey. Certainly his deft karate skills have become slow and ponderous. Stansfield had lost none of his ability in winning the ball in the air but on the ground he was slow and ponderous and a number of defensive errors became attributed to him. Joaquin came in for the ponderous Luis Enrique and made such an impact that one wondered how he was not preferred to the veteran Barcelona player before now. Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier. The superior fitness and organisation within the Malton side was always going to cause problems for a ponderous and ageing visiting side who had little to offer apart from a big front row. One of the rules of radio: nimble and facile is preferable to ponderous and slow. After Jurassic Park, the monster looked so slow and ponderous it was pretty funny. At times in that second stanza, Glasgow plodded around like one of the infamous local vehicles run on illegal cooking oil: wheezy, ponderous and not too reliable. The jury remains out on whether the ponderous Blanc can replace the discarded Jaap Stam and the champions have leaked seven goals in the four games he has played. Synonyms clumsy, slow, heavy, awkward, lumbering, slow-moving, cumbersome, heavy-footed, ungainly, graceless, maladroit, uncoordinated, blundering, like a bull in a china shop 1.1 Dull, laborious, or excessively solemn. 毫无趣味的；费力的；过分庄重的 Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences 利兹无法控制自己不说完所有毫无趣味的话。 Example sentencesExamples The hymn has a heavy, ponderous, sonorous melody that goes all the way back to the chants of the fourth century. They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show. The price is obscene, and I often find the typical article… ponderous. House of the Spirits was stilted and ponderous and written with a poor command of the nuances of English. LaGamma's essay in particular is informative without being ponderous. Government-by-committee and persistent bureaucratic controls lead to ponderous decision-making. After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie. No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul. That we heard Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, saying it's too slow, it's too ponderous. Most contemporary Baptists would find a sermon like this ponderous and pedantic. This opera is long and ponderous enough, and though there is much depth to plumb, the tempos, to me, must move along. The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again. Her meticulous nature and ponderous pauses would lead to drawn out silences that could terminate any argument in a concise finale, leaving you in no doubt who was right and who was wrong. There's no point in comparing the graphic novel Road to Perdition with the respectable though somewhat ponderous movie based on it. Congress had managed to wade through the ponderous 200-page tome. Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience. The response of university authorities has been slow and ponderous. The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters. Beck's answers are slow and considered, thoughtful to the point of being ponderous. The courts move in their usual ponderous manner. Synonyms laboured, laborious, dull, awkward, clumsy, forced, stilted, unnatural, artificial, turgid, stodgy, stolid, lifeless, plodding, pedestrian, boring, uninteresting, solemn, serious, tedious, monotonous, dry, dreary, pedantic Origin Late Middle English: via French from Latin ponderosus, from pondus, ponder- ‘weight’.
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