What does ponderous mean?
Ponderous means Heavy, massive, weighty..
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/ˈpɒn.dəɹ.əs/ · adjective
Heavy, massive, weighty..
[H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron.
The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push.
Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
It was Dryden's opinion . . . that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes; and that it is necessary to mitigate, by alleviations of merriment, the pressure of ponderous events, and the fatigue of toilsome passions.
In its court-yard—worthy of the Castle of Otranto in its ponderous gloom—is a massive staircase.
For the time, her own body was the source of all the life in the world, which tried to burst forth here—there—and was repressed now by Mr. Bax, now by Evelyn, now by the imposition of ponderous stupidity.
[T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
Slowly, through an increasing glow that lighted land and water alike, the leviathan of the deep made her ponderous progress to the hill-encircled harbor.
Use ponderous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ponderous means Heavy, massive, weighty..
Common synonyms include heavy, massive, oppressive, serious.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron.
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