ponderous (adj.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: heavy , lumbering ]

  2. having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; a ponderous stone; a ponderous burden; ponderous weapons'

  3. labored and dull; a ponderous speech'

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