Ponderous

//ˈpɑn.dɚ.əs//

Synonyms for "ponderous" (159 found)

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Translations

57 translations across 13 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • ثقيل adj (heavy, massive, weighty)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • досаден adj (dull or boring)
  • масивен adj (heavy, massive, weighty)
  • скучен adj (dull or boring)
  • тежък adj (heavy, massive, weighty)

Finnish

4 entries
  • järkälemäinen adj (heavy, massive, weighty)
  • kömpelö adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)
  • painava adj (heavy, massive, weighty)
  • pitkäveteinen adj (dull or boring)

French

4 entries
  • abrutissant adj (dull or boring)
  • béotien adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)
  • conformiste adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)
  • dogmatique adj (dull or boring)

German

1 entries
  • schwerfällig adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)

Greek

4 entries
  • βαρετός adj (dull or boring)
  • βαρύς adj (heavy, massive, weighty)
  • δυσκίνητος adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)
  • πληκτικός adj (dull or boring)

Irish

1 entries
  • anásta adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)

Māori

1 entries
  • māngaingai adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • آغر adj (heavy, massive, weighty)
  • وزین adj (heavy, massive, weighty)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • schwoafalich adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • enfadonho adj (dull or boring)

Russian

4 entries
  • неповоро́тливый adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)
  • неуклю́жий adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)
  • ну́дный adj (dull or boring)
  • ску́чный adj (dull or boring)

Spanish

4 entries
  • abrumador adj (dull or boring)
  • agobiante adj (dull or boring)
  • aplastante adj (dull or boring)
  • beocio adj (clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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Seals are clumsy and ponderous on land, but very graceful in the water.

Source: tatoeba (4426577)

The old professor's lectures are long-winded and ponderous.

Source: tatoeba (4426581)

Now for the ponderous goblet called the Queen, / of jewelled gold, which Belus used and they / of Belus' line, and poured the wine straightway.

Source: tatoeba (6800264)

A bird's-eye view of a large city in Japan presents an appearance quite unlike that presented by any large assemblage of buildings at home. A view of Tokio, for example, from some elevated point reveals a vast sea of roofs, the gray of the shingles and dark slate-color of the tiles, with dull reflections from their surfaces, giving a sombre effect to the whole. The even expanse is broken here and there by the fire-proof buildings, with their ponderous tiled roofs and ridges and pure white or jet-black walls. These, though in color adding to the sombre appearance, form, with the exception of the temples, one of the most conspicuous features in the general monotony. The temples are indeed conspicuous, as they tower far above the pigmy dwellings which surround them. Their great black roofs, with massive ridges and ribs, and grand sweeps and white or red gables, render them striking objects from whatever point they are viewed. Green masses of tree-foliage springing from the numerous gardens add some life to this gray sea of domiciles.

Source: tatoeba (9495174)

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