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Word entry · 9 letters

ponderous

Best crossword clue

"Heavy and slow"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɒn.dəɹ.əs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted denooprsuStarts with PEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. having great mass and weight and unwieldiness

Word origin

Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”).

Used in a sentence

  • [H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron.
  • The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push.
  • In its court-yard—worthy of the Castle of Otranto in its ponderous gloom—is a massive staircase.

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