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Ponderously

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a ponderous manner; very slowly.

    "Sir Ernest Heavywether rose ponderously."

  2. 2
    With the appearance of great weight.

    "A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a heavy ponderous manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in an uninterestingly ponderous manner wordnet

Etymology

From ponderous + -ly.

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