Ponderousness \Pon"der*ous*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ponderousness
n : the property of being large in mass [syn: heft, heftiness,
massiveness, ponderosity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "ponderousness":
Gothicism, aridity, avoirdupois, awkwardness, bad taste, barbarism,
barbarousness, barrenness, beef, beefiness, bloodlessness,
bombasticness, boorishness, bulkiness, bumblingness, cacology,
cacophony, characterlessness, clownishness, clumsiness, coarseness,
colorlessness, crudeness, cumbersomeness, cumbrousness, deadness,
deadweight, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness,
dustiness, dysphemism, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, fatness,
flatness, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, gravity,
gross weight, grossness, ham-handedness, handful of thumbs,
harshness, heaviness, heavy-handedness, heft, heftiness,
hollowness, hulkiness, ill-balanced sentences, impracticality,
impropriety, impurity, inanity, inconcinnity, inconvenience,
incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy,
inexcitability, infelicity, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity,
lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, left-handedness,
lifelessness, liveweight, loutishness, lowness of spirit,
lubberliness, lumpishness, maladroitness, massiveness, neat weight,
net, net weight, oafishness, overbalance, overweight, paleness,
pallor, pointlessness, pokiness, pompousness, ponderability,
ponderosity, poor diction, poundage, roughness, rudeness,
sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slipshod construction, slowness,
solemnity, spiritlessness, sterility, stiffness, stiltedness,
stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness,
tonnage, turgidity, uncouthness, underweight, uneuphoniousness,
ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandiness, uninterestingness,
unliveliness, unmanageability, unrefinement, unseemliness,
unwieldiness, vapidity, vapidness, vulgarism, vulgarity, weight,
weightiness, woodenness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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