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ponderous |
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ponderous Adjective 1. serious and dull: much of the film is ponderous and pretentious 2. heavy or huge 3. (of movement) slow and clumsy [Latin ponderosus of great weight]
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ponderous adjective 1. dull, laboured, pedestrian, dreary, heavy, tedious, plodding, tiresome, lifeless, stilted, stodgy, pedantic, long-winded, verbose, prolix adjective 2. clumsy, awkward, lumbering, laborious, graceless, elephantine, heavy-footed, unco Austral. (slang) << OPPOSITE graceful |
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Often had I pondered on the odd instructions he had left me governing the construction of his mighty tomb, and especially those parts which directed that he be laid in an OPEN casket and that the ponderous mechanism which controlled the bolts of the vault's huge door be accessible ONLY FROM THE INSIDE. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked the chest, and lifted its ponderous lid. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight--perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman. |
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