Synonyms for ponderous
ˈpɒn dər əspon·der·ous

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1. ponderousadjective

   Synonyms:
   massive, heavy

2. ponderousadjective

   Synonyms:
   oppressive, serious

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1. ponderous

   Synonyms:
   clumsy, dull, heavy, inert, slow, sluggish, stony, wooden

   Antonyms:
   aerial, airy, animated, ethereal, fairylike, frolicsome, gay, joyous, light, lively, sprightly

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1. ponderous

   Antonyms:
   light, trifling, airy, volatile, subtle

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1. heavy, lumbering, ponderousadjective

   slow and laborious because of weight

   "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, with child(p), sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, heavy(p), threatening, grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, heavy, arduous, big(a), labored, punishing, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

   Antonyms:
   interesting, light-footed, light

2. ponderousadjective

   having great mass and weight and unwieldiness

   "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"

   Synonyms:
   lumbering, heavy

   Antonyms:
   light-footed, light, interesting

3. ponderousadjective

   labored and dull

   "a ponderous speech"

   Synonyms:
   lumbering, heavy

   Antonyms:
   light-footed, interesting, light

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1. ponderousadjective

   Synonyms:
   heavy, weighty, massive

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1. ponderousadjective

   Synonyms:
   massive, heavy, cumbersome, dull, spiritless momentous, important

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1. List of paraphrases for "ponderous":

   heavy, cumbersome, unwieldy

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How to use ponderous in a sentence?

1. This Is Spinal Tap:

   Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

2. W, Willard Wirtz:

   Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

3. R Chamberlain:

   A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.