Ponderous Synonyms and Antonyms

pŏndər-əs
Weighty
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dull
  2. lifeless
Unwieldy or clumsy, especially due to excess weight
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. heavy
  2. cumbrous
  3. cumbersome
  4. lumpish
  5. lumpy
Antonyms:
  1. light
  2. elegant
  3. airy
  4. buoyant
  5. graceful
  6. unburdensome
  7. delicate
Lacking fluency or gracefulness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. elephantine
  2. heavy-handed
  3. labored
Antonyms:
  1. lively
  2. fun
  3. light
Dull and lacking grace or fluency:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. heavy

Words Related to Ponderous

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Ponderous Sentence Examples

  • The confidence had gone out of City's play, they looked ponderous.

  • Oh, you are very pale! said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law.

  • This may sound like a ponderous task, but it can be quite interesting.

  • His book immediately became the most popular that ever appeared among the Servians, and was again and again reprinted, under the less ponderous title Pesmaritsa, " The Book of Songs."

  • William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (2 vols., 1827), is a ponderous and shapeless work.

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