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# ponderous

adjective

«ponderous» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Ponderous means very heavy and large, so that it is hard to lift or move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#m1)
2. Ponderous also means slow and heavy in manner, without any lightness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, a huge heavy object such as a ship, a stone door or a load that many people cannot move; also slow, heavy steps

### Examples

- The stone door was too ponderous to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#x1)
- The elephant walked with ponderous steps. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#x2)
- The ship was so ponderous that fifty men could not push it into the water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ponderous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ponderous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ponderous.html) on Mova free.