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Adjective: ponderous  póndurus
  1. Slow and laborious because of weight
    "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
    - heavy, lumbering
     
  2. Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
    "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
     
  3. Laboured and dull
    "a ponderous speech"

See also: heavy, heavy-footed, ponderously, ponderousness, uninteresting

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