ponderousness
- noun
- /ˈpɒndərəsnəs/
:
pesadez
- He struggled to carry the box due to its ponderousness, which made it feel twice as heavy.
Examples
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The ponderousness of the old machinery made it difficult to move between the workshops.
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By and large, national cultures have not adapted well to disaster; such is the ponderousness of national administrative mechanisms.
Academic text (2006) -
Straining, they eased his sudden ponderousness to the deck beyond.
Fiction book (2001) -
I did read a lot of Hemingway, but I was drawn to German culture, which attracted me with its peculiar massiveness and ponderousness that nevertheless added up to a whole (I was dealing primarily with Romanticism and the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century).
Fiction book (1993) -
Despite its ponderousness, the elephant moved gracefully through the dense forest.
Synonyms
14
5.6
The weight you feel when you lift something
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2.5
A large weight that makes something hard to lift
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5.4
A great size or weight that makes something heavy
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3.9
Being large and hard to carry or move
A great weight that makes something hard to move
The state of being very heavy and hard to lift
Being heavy, large, or physically strong
Antonyms
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ponderousness comes from the Latin root pondus meaning 'weight', the same idea behind English ponder (originally 'weigh') and pound. So ponderousness often means great physical heaviness or large bulk that is hard to move.