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
Etymologies
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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
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