Ponderously
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Ponderously is an adverb meaning In a ponderous manner; very slowly.
Meaning
In a ponderous manner; very slowly.
More Meanings
- With the appearance of great weight.
Example Sentences
Sir Ernest Heavywether rose ponderously.
Rooney and his team-mates started ponderously, as if sensing the enormity of the occasion, but once Scholes began to link with Ryan Giggs in the middle of the park, the visitors increased the tempo with Sunderland struggling to keep up.
A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include weightily, ponderingly, painstakingly, torpidly, slowly, lazily.
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