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ponderous 音标拼音: [p'ɑndɚəs] a. 沉重的,笨重的,冗长的,沉闷的 沈重的,笨重的,冗长的,沈闷的 ponderous adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { heavy}, { lumbering}, { ponderous}] 2: having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; " a ponderous stone"; " a ponderous burden"; " ponderous weapons" 3: labored and dull; " a ponderous speech" Ponderous \ Pon" der* ous\, a. [ L. ponderosus, from pondus, - eris, a weight: cf. F. pond[' e] reux. See { Ponder}.] 1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. [ 1913 Webster] The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Important; momentous; forcible. " Your more ponderous and settled project." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. [ 1913 Webster] { Ponderous spar} ( Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See { Barite}. [ 1913 Webster] 134 Moby Thesaurus words for " ponderous": Latinate, all thumbs, arid, awkward, barren, big, blah, blank, bloodless, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, boring, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, characterless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy- fisted, cold, colorless, contrary, cramped, crosswise, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fat, fingers all thumbs, flat, forced, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, grandiloquent, guinde, halting, ham- fisted, ham- handed, heavy, heavy- handed, heavyweight, hefty, ho- hum, hollow, huge, hulking, hulky, impractical, inane, inconvenient, inelegant, inexcitable, inflated, inkhorn, insipid, jejune, labored, laborious, large, leaden, left- hand, left- handed, lifeless, long- winded, loutish, low- spirited, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, overdone, overweight, pale, pallid, pedestrian, perverse, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, prolix, sesquipedalian, sloppy, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, tiresome, turgid, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unlively, unmanageable, unwieldy, vapid, verbose, weighty, windy, wooden, wordy
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