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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ponderous character or quality; ponderosity; weight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
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- noun The quality of being
ponderous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
- noun the property of being large in mass
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Examples
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The 2-1/2 hour roadshow edition we saw succumbed to ponderousness all too often.
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The movie itself struggles against all-encompassing ponderousness.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Anthony Page directs with a plodding ponderousness that turns this disconcerting comedy into a three-hour trudge.
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He would emphasize the Cockney in his voice when he said these things, perhaps to defuse the ponderousness.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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It would have been easy to class the ineffectiveness of Capello's men on that occasion as a random lapse had it not been for a previous 0-0, against Algeria at the World Cup, that epitomised the ponderousness in that tournament.
Andy Carroll's selection highlights England coach's striking problem Kevin McCarra 2010
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He would emphasize the Cockney in his voice when he said these things, perhaps to defuse the ponderousness.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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He would emphasize the Cockney in his voice when he said these things, perhaps to defuse the ponderousness.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Evidently, we hadn't thought this through properly, not Jessica Mary with her affinity for florid words or me with my natural ponderousness.
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By the way, does your ponderousness create its own gravitational field?
Report: Girl "Safe And Asleep" In Hillary's 3 A.M. Ad Is Supporting...Obama! 2009
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But you forgot "pondering the ponderousness of ponderosity."
Artist’s Statement Generator James Gurney 2009
Related Words
synonyms (134)
Words with the same meaning
- Gothicism
- aridity
- avoirdupois
- awkwardness
- bad taste
- barbarism
- barbarousness
- barrenness
- beef
- beefiness
- bloodlessness
- bombasticness
- boorishness
- bulkiness
- bumblingness
- cacology
- cacophony
- characterlessness
- clownishness
- clumsiness
- coarseness
- colorlessness
- crudeness
- cumbersomeness
- cumbrousness
- deadness
- deadweight
- dismalness
- dragginess
- dreariness
- dryness
- dullness
- dustiness
- dysphemism
- effeteness
- emptiness
- etiolation
- fatness
- flatness
- gawkiness
- gawkishness
- gracelessness
- gravity
- gross weight
- grossness
- ham-handedness
- handful of thumbs
- harshness
- heaviness
- heavy-handedness
- heft
- heftiness
- hollowness
- hulkiness
- ill-balanced sentences
- impracticality
- impropriety
- impurity
- inanity
- inconcinnity
- inconvenience
- incorrectness
- indecorousness
- inelegance
- inelegancy
- inexcitability
- infelicity
- insipidity
- insipidness
- jejunity
- lack of finish
- lack of polish
- leadenness
- left-handedness
- lifelessness
- liveweight
- loutishness
- lowness of spirit
- lubberliness
- lumpishness
- maladroitness
- massiveness
- neat weight
- net
- net weight
- oafishness
- overbalance
- overweight
- paleness
- pallor
- pointlessness
- pokiness
- pompousness
- ponderability
- ponderosity
- poor diction
- poundage
- roughness
- rudeness
- sesquipedalianism
- sesquipedality
- slipshod construction
- slowness
- solemnity
- spiritlessness
- sterility
- stiffness
- stiltedness
- stodginess
- stuffiness
- superficiality
- tastelessness
- tediousness
- tonnage
- turgidity
- uncouthness
- underweight
- uneuphoniousness
- ungainliness
- ungracefulness
- unhandiness
- uninterestingness
- unliveliness
- unmanageability
- unrefinement
- unseemliness
- unwieldiness
- vapidity
- vapidness
- vulgarism
- vulgarity
- weight
- weightiness
- woodenness
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