ponderous
(adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; “a ponderous stone”; “a ponderous burden”; “ponderous weapons”
heavy, lumbering, ponderous
(adjective) 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”
ponderous
(adjective) labored and dull; “a ponderous speech”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ponderous (comparative more ponderous, superlative most ponderous)
Heavy, massive, weighty.
(figuratively, by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive.
Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
(rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering.
(obsolete) Dense.
• (heavy, massive): heavy, massive
• (serious, onerous): oppressive, serious
• neuropods
Source: Wiktionary
Pon"der*ous, a. Etym: [L. ponderosus, from pondus, -eris, a weight: cf. F. pondéreux. See Ponder.]
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak.
2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak.
3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke. Ponderous spar (Min.), heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
