ponderousness
Lumbering, labored quality
Ponderousness is the quality of being heavy, slow, or labored.
Physical ponderousness suggests unwieldy mass: the ponderousness of the elephant's gait.
More often the word describes writing, speech, or thought that moves without grace or lightness—dull, plodding, overly serious: The ponderousness of his prose put readers to sleep.
State of being consequential
- heftPerceived mass, substance
- bulkMain mass or size
- massivenessExtreme largeness in scale
- heavinessState of being weighty
density · solidity · substantiality · cumbersomeness · unwieldiness · lumbering · leaden · thick
Mutual mass attraction
- gravitasDignified, weighty manner
- seriousnessEarnest, weighty demeanor
- weightinessState of being consequential
- earnestnessGenuine seriousness of intent
solemnness · sedateness · staidness · formality · dignity · sobriety · somberness · austerity
Lack of stimulation
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- monotonyTiresome lack of change
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
stodginess · heaviness · laboriousness · slowness · sluggishness · prosiness · verbosity · prolixity
State of being grueling
- toilsomenessQuality of requiring exertion
- onerousnessOppressive difficulty quality
- burdensomenessQuality of weighing heavily
- strenuousnessState of requiring effort
exhaustiveness · heaviness · slog · grind · uphill · difficulty · oppressiveness · wearisomeness
weightiness
State of being consequential
- heftPerceived mass, substance
- bulkMain mass or size
- massivenessExtreme largeness in scale
heaviness · density · solidity · substantiality · cumbersomeness · unwieldiness · lumbering · leaden · thick · voluminous
gravity
Mutual mass attraction
- gravitasDignified, weighty manner
- seriousnessEarnest, weighty demeanor
- weightinessState of being consequential
earnestness · solemnness · sedateness · staidness · formality · dignity · sobriety · somberness · austerity · profoundness
dullness
Lack of stimulation
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- monotonyTiresome lack of change
dreariness · stodginess · heaviness · laboriousness · slowness · sluggishness · prosiness · verbosity · prolixity · overelaboration
arduousness
State of being grueling
- toilsomenessQuality of requiring exertion
- onerousnessOppressive difficulty quality
- burdensomenessQuality of weighing heavily
strenuousness · exhaustiveness · heaviness · slog · grind · uphill · difficulty · oppressiveness · wearisomeness
ponderousnesslightness
Minimal weight or gravity
weightlessness · airiness · ethereality · insubstantiality · etherealness
ponderousnessnimbleness
Ease of quick movement
agility · sprightliness · litheness · quickness · swiftness
ponderousnesslightness
Minimal weight or gravity
breeziness · sprightliness · liveliness · vivacity · wit
pondering, ponderous, pondered, ponders, preponderance, imponderable, preponderant, preponderantly, imponderables