ponderous

  • 21Ponderous siltsnail — Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3) Scientific classification Kingd …

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  • 22ponderous — adj. [L. pondus, weight] Of great weight; large; huge, bulky …

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  • 23ponderous — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, all thumbs, arid, awkward, barren, big, blah, blank, bloodless, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, boring, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, characterless, clownish, clumsy,… …

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  • 24ponderous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. heavy, weighty, bulky, massive; tedious. See gravity, inelegance.Ant., light, weightless. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. heavy, dull, weighty, lifeless; see heavy 1 , indifferent 1 . See Synonym Study… …

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  • 25ponderous — pon·der·ous || pÉ‘ndÉ™rÉ™s / pÉ’n adj. heavy, weighty; ungainly, awkward; dull, boring, tedious …

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  • 26ponderous — adjective 1》 slow and clumsy because of great weight. 2》 dull or laborious. Derivatives ponderosity noun ponderously adverb ponderousness noun Origin ME: via Fr. from L. ponderosus, from pondus, ponder weight …

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  • 27ponderous — a. 1. Heavy, weighty, massive, bulky. 2. Momentous, important, weighty. 3. Forcible, mighty …

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  • 28ponderous — adj 1. heavy, massive, weighty, hefty, bulky; prodigious, mighty, immense, gigantic, huge, large, big; awkward, unwieldy, cumbersome, unmanageable, clumsy. 2. labored, forced, dull, tedious, boring, uninteresting, monotonous, dreary, tiresome;… …

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  • 29ponderous — pon·der·ous …

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  • 30ponderous — adj. 1 heavy; unwieldy. 2 laborious. 3 (of style etc.) dull; tedious. Derivatives: ponderosity n. ponderously adv. ponderousness n. Etymology: ME f. L ponderosus f. pondus eris weight …

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