ponderous
adjective
of great weight; heavy; massive.
ponderosity
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a word derived from
ponderous.
Example Sentences
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Moments like the mattress story above matter because “On Immunity” is a hothouse flower of a book, self-serious, heavy on the ponderosity.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2014
As each day's cares weighed him further down, his literary style reached new depths of wooden ponderosity.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Genuine weight, ponderosity even, is lent to this manifesto by the . explanatory information that Ned Wayburn, now turned impresario, is to be Miss Farrar's master of ceremonies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But someone remarked that his speaking lacked dignity and weight; so he loaded himself with the works of Edmund Burke; and now he discusses the smallest subject with a ponderosity suited to the largest.
From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke
