Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ponderous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ponderous \Pon"der*ous\, a. [L. ponderosus, from pondus, -eris,
a weight: cf. F. pond['e]reux. See {Ponder}.]
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous
load; the ponderous elephant.
The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and
marble jaws. --Shak.
2. Important; momentous; forcible. ``Your more ponderous and
settled project.'' --Shak.
3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous
style; a ponderous joke.
{Ponderous spar} (Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See
{Barite}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ponderous
adj 1: slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of
tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied
trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous
yawn" [syn: {heavy}, {lumbering}]
2: having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous
stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
3: labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"
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