Thesaurus
ponderous
Synonyms and Antonyms of ponderous
- fell asleep during the ponderous speech
aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless
blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular
annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating
draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing
demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid
cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey)
amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrous
animating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling
amusing, diverting, entertaining
alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating
- those ponderous pachyderms more commonly known as elephants
airy, ethereal, feathery, fluffy, gossamer, gossamery
lightweight, undersized (also undersize), underweight
- lugged a ponderous movie camera all over China
Synonym Discussion of ponderous
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- a heavy child for his age
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- a load of weighty boxes
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- ponderous elephants in a circus parade
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- wrestled with the cumbrous furniture
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- early cameras were cumbersome and inconvenient
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