- Types Of Speech
- You can use ponderous as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Ponderous
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 9 letters with the letters d, e, n, o, p, r, s, and u, 5 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter e. Ponderous starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, po, pon, pond, ponde, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, rous, erous, ..
- Definition
- Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Ponderous is set as a sat word that starts with p, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 9 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Ponderous in Pig Latin is said as "onderouspay or onderouspway".
- Unigram
- p | o | n | d | e | r | o | u | s
- Bigram
- po | on | nd | de | er | ro | ou | us
- Trigram
- pon | ond | nde | der | ero | rou | ous
- Quadrigram
- pond | onde | nder | dero | erou | rous
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness;
"a ponderous stone";
"a ponderous burden";
"ponderous weapons" - slow and laborious because of weight;
"the heavy tread of tired troops";
"moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot";
"ponderous prehistoric beasts";
"a ponderous yawn" - labored and dull;
"a ponderous speech"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adiposis | the property of excessive fatness |
| All Thumbs | |
| Apartment | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
| Arduous | difficult to accomplish demanding considerable mental effort and skill "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary" |
| Arid | lacking vitality or spirit lifeless "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata" "a desiccate romance" "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo |
| Artificial | artificially formal "that artificial humility that her husband hated" "contrived coyness" "a stilted letter of acknowledgment" "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" |
| Asinine | complacently or inanely foolish |
| Avoirdupois | excess bodily weight "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" |
| Awkward | not at ease socially unsure and constrained in manner "awkward and reserved at parties" "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know" "was always uneasy with strangers" |
| Backbreaking | characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion especially physical effort "worked their arduous way up the mining valley" "a grueling campaign" "hard labor" "heavy work" "heavy going" "spent many laborious hours on the project" "set a |
View all cognitive synonyms for Ponderous
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ponderous | having great mass and weight and unwieldiness "a ponderous stone" "a ponderous burden" "ponderous weapons" |
View English words with the unique letters used in ponderous. Words With The Letters Denoprsu
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
Ponderous Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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