ponderous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ponderous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ponderous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ponderous adj 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(s): heavy, lumbering, ponderous having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons" labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ponderous \Pon"derous\, a. [L. ponderosus, from pondus, -eris, a weight: cf. F. pond[82]reux. See {Ponder}.] 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. [bd]Your more ponderous and settled project.[b8] --Shak. 3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. {Ponderous spar} (Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See {Barite}.