ponderous
heavy, slow, or dull from weight
Roots
- -ous / -ious: full of or marked by a quality
- pond / ponder: weight, weighing, or serious consideration
Other words with the pond / ponder root
- imponderable: impossible or very difficult to estimate or weigh
- ponder: to think carefully
- pound: unit of weight
- preponderance: greater weight, force, or amount
- preponderant: having greater weight, influence, or importance
Ponderous keeps the weight image: physically heavy or mentally heavy to move through.
The ponderous report buried one useful idea under fifty pages.
Ponderous can describe a heavy object, a slow speech, or writing that feels hard to lift. The weight is the point.