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# ponderous

«ponderous» in Mova's school dictionary: **very heavy and large, so that it is hard to lift or move** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ponderous means very heavy and large, so that it is hard to lift or move. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#x1)
- The elephant walked with ponderous steps. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ponderous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponderous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.