ponderously

1. 1.

   in an uninterestingly ponderous manner

   “the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets”
2. 2.

   in a heavy ponderous manner

   “he moves ponderously”

Questions about ponderously

What does ponderously mean?

ponderously means "in an uninterestingly ponderous manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ponderously?

ponderously has 4 syllables: pon-de-rou-sly. The stress falls on "de".

Is ponderously a common word?

ponderously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.