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
To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
As each day's cares weighed him further down, his literary style reached new depths of wooden ponderosity.
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
I won't dispute the palm of beauty with him, Mrs. Nettley, nor of ponderosity.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
