Associations to the word «Ponderous»

Wiktionary

PONDEROUS, adjective. Heavy, massive, weighty.
PONDEROUS, adjective. (figuratively) (by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive.
PONDEROUS, adjective. Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
PONDEROUS, adjective. Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
PONDEROUS, adjective. (rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering.
PONDEROUS, adjective. (obsolete) Dense.

Dictionary definition

PONDEROUS, adjective. 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".
PONDEROUS, adjective. Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons".
PONDEROUS, adjective. Labored and dull; "a ponderous speech".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats