ponderousadjective
uk/ˈpɒn.dər.əs/us/ˈpɑːn.dɚ.əs/formal mainly disapprovingslow and awkward because of being very heavy or large:
He had a slow and ponderous manner.
If a book, speech, or style of writing or speaking is ponderous, it is boring because it is too slow, long, or serious:
The ponderous reporting style makes the evening news dull viewing.
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Thick, dense and heavy
- chunky
- clunky
- cumbersome
- dense
- densely
- density
- encumber
- heaviness
- heavy
- hefty
- sludgy
- thick
- thicken
- thickness
- unwieldy
- weigh
- weigh a ton idiom
- weight
- wiry
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adverb uk/ˈpɒn.dər.əs.li/us/ˈpɑːn.dɚ.əs.li/