Meanings (ES + gloss)
beocio • conformista • grosero • pesado • torpe
Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
Slowly, through an increasing glow that lighted land and water alike, the leviathan of the deep made her ponderous progress to the hill-encircled harbor.
[T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
abrumador • agobiante • aplastante • dogmático • grave • torpe
Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
Over supper the minister did unbend a little into one or two ponderous jokes.
[A]s certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution…
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