ponderous

Definition

Heavy, massive, weighty.

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”).

Example Sentences

• "[H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron."
• "The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push."
• "Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences."