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ponderous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of ponderous

1 causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest

fell asleep during the ponderous speech

Synonyms of ponderous

arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying

Words Related to ponderous

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

debilitating, enfeebling

demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting

common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid

cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey)

Near Antonyms of ponderous

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

moving, poignant, touching

alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating

mesmerizing, spellbinding

arresting, provocative, tantalizing

Antonyms of ponderous

absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting

2 having great weight

those ponderous pachyderms more commonly known as elephants

Synonyms of ponderous

heavy, hefty, massive, weighty

Words Related to ponderous

burdensome, leaden, lumpish

bulky, elephantine, massy, outsize (also outsized), voluminous

overweight, top-heavy

solid, substantial

Near Antonyms of ponderous

airy, ethereal, feathery, fluffy, gossamer, gossamery

flimsy, insubstantial, slight

lightweight, undersized (also undersize), underweight

ultralight, ultralightweight

Antonyms of ponderous

light, weightless

3 difficult to use or operate especially because of size, weight, or design

lugged a ponderous movie camera all over China

Synonyms of ponderous

awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, clunky, cranky, cumbersome, cumbrous, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy

Words Related to ponderous

uncontrollable, unmanageable

bulky, dinosaurian, dinosauric, elephantine, heavy, hulking, massive

impracticable, impractical

Near Antonyms of ponderous

functional, practicable, practical, serviceable, useful

Antonyms of ponderous

Synonym Discussion of ponderous

heavy, weighty, ponderous, cumbrous, cumbersome mean having great weight. heavy implies that something has greater density or thickness than the average of its kind or class.

- a heavy child for his age

weighty suggests having actual and not just relative weight.

- a load of weighty boxes

ponderous implies having great weight because of size and massiveness with resulting great inertia.

- ponderous elephants in a circus parade

cumbrous and cumbersome imply heaviness and bulkiness that make for difficulty in grasping, moving, carrying, or manipulating.

- wrestled with the cumbrous furniture
- early cameras were cumbersome and inconvenient

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