Definition of "ponderous" []

• Having great weight. (adjective)
• Unwieldy from weight or bulk. (adjective)
• Lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull: a ponderous speech. See Synonyms at heavy. (adjective)

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• "Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks."
• "Their thirty - and forty-thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles off-shore and manœuvred in ponderous evolutions; while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funnelled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks."
• "– The days of chivalry are no more: the knight no longer sallies forth in ponderous armour, mounted upon a steed as invulnerable as himself."