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Meaning of word ponderous from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

ponderous adjective

Meaning : Slow and laborious because of weight.

Example : The heavy tread of tired troops.
Moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot.
Ponderous prehistoric beasts.
A ponderous yawn.

Synonyms : heavy, lumbering

Meaning : Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness.

Example : A ponderous stone.
A ponderous burden.
Ponderous weapons.

Meaning : Labored and dull.

Example : A ponderous speech.

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A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.

palatalized (adjective)
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin').

palatine (noun)
Any of various important officials in ancient Rome.

palatal (noun)
A semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast').

feather (noun)
The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds.

lumbering (noun)
The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber.

os palatinum (noun)
Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.

palatalised (adjective)
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin').

palatine bone (noun)
Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.

palsgrave (noun)
(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands.