Ponderous

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  • adjective. Having great weight.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Slow and labored because of great bulk or weight.
  • adjective. Difficult to maneuver or control because of great bulk or weight.
  • adjective. Slow or difficult to manage, especially because of complexity.
  • adjective. Dull and lacking grace or fluency: synonym: heavy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having weight; weighty; heavy; especially, very heavy; hence, clumsy or unwieldy by reason of weight: used both literally and figuratively.
  • Weighty; important; momentous.
  • Disposed to ponder; thinking; thoughtful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Very heavy; weighty
  • adjective. Important; momentous; forcible.
  • adjective. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit
  • adjective. heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Heavy, massive, weighty.
  • adjective. Serious, onerous, oppressive.
  • adjective. Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
  • adjective. Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
  • adjective. Characterized by or associated with pondering.
  • adjective. Dense.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  • adjective. labored and dull
  • adjective. slow and laborious because of weight
  • Word Usage
    "Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks."
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