NOUN | attribute | ponderousness, heaviness | an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency |
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attribute | ponderousness, heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity | the property of being large in mass |
Meaning | An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency. | |
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Example | "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness" | |
Synonym | heaviness | |
Broader | uninterestingness | inability to capture or hold one's interest |
Adjectives | ponderous | labored and dull / dull |
Meaning | The property of being large in mass. | |
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Synonyms | heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity | |
Broader | heaviness, weightiness | The property of being comparatively great in weight |
Spanish | ponderosidad | |
Adjectives | ponderous | slow and laborious because of weight |
ponderous | having great mass and weight and unwieldiness |
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