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 →

2) Ponderous also means slow and heavy in manner, without any lightness. tree →

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 →
• The elephant walked with ponderous steps. tree →
• The ship was so ponderous that fifty men could not push it into the water. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ponderous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.