What is the meaning of ponderous?

adjective

  • Slow and laborious because of weight.
    • usage: "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
  • Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness.
    • usage: "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
  • Labored and dull.
    • usage: "a ponderous speech"
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