Meaning & use
ponderous
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Slow, heavy, or clumsy, especially due to great weight; also, dull and labored in style.
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The ponderous elephant lumbered across the savanna.
Critics found the novel's ponderous prose difficult to get through.
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Can describe physical heaviness or, just as often, writing or speech that feels tediously slow and overly serious.
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