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Ponderous Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Ponderous has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
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"

2

having great mass and weight and unwieldiness

"a ponderous stone"

"a ponderous burden"

"ponderous weapons"

3

labored and dull

"a ponderous speech"

4

Heavy, massive, weighty.

Example Sentences
"the heavy tread of tired troops" adjective
"moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot" adjective
"ponderous prehistoric beasts" adjective
"a ponderous yawn" adjective
"a ponderous stone" adjective
"a ponderous burden" adjective
"ponderous weapons" adjective
"a ponderous speech" adjective
See Also
weighty overponderous tedious massive long winded slow ponderable heavy
Related Terms

Origin

Ponderous comes from the Latin word ponderosus, which originally meant "weighty."

Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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