Lexic.us

Definition of Ponderous

1. Adjective. Slow and laborious because of weight. "A ponderous yawn"

2. Adjective. Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness. "Ponderous weapons"

3. Adjective. Labored and dull. "A ponderous speech"

Definition of Ponderous

1. a. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant.

Definition of Ponderous

1. Adjective. Heavy, massive, weighty. ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive. ¹

3. Adjective. Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight. ¹

4. Adjective. Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression. ¹

5. Adjective. (rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering. ¹

6. Adjective. (obsolete) Dense. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ponderous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Ponderous

1. 1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. "The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws." (Shak) 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." 3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. Ponderous spar, heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite. Origin: L. Ponderosus, from pondus, -eris, a weight: cf. F. Pondereux. See Ponder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponderous

ponderative pondered ponderer ponderers pondereth pondering ponderingly ponderings pondermotive ponderomotive

ponderosa ponderosa pine ponderosas ponderosities ponderosity ponderous (current term) ponderously ponderousness ponderousnesses ponders

pondfish pondfishes pondhawk pondhawks pondian ponding pondings pondlife pondlike pondok

Literary usage of Ponderous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"16—12 ponderous one. It has little narrative interest, lacks the atmosphere of the East, presents us with personages rather than with persons, ..."

2. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"ponderous. Sut? 16. Ponders. The pond'rous brass in exercise he bore; Sta1.1 37. The ponderous mass sinks in the cleaving ground, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Where goods are ponderous, and incapable as here of being handed over from one to another, there need not be an actual delivery : but it may be done by that ..."

4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"An aged ash-tree, as he fixes firm His feet in earth and hides his brows in cloud; — So loomed Mezentius with his ponderous arms. To match him now, ^Eneas, ..."

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