ponderousness
91heaviness — n. 1. Gravity, weight, ponderousness. 2. Oppressiveness, grievousness, severity. 3. Languor, dulness, stupidity, sluggishness. 4. Dejection, depression, sadness, melancholy, despondency, gloom, low spirits, depression of spirits …
92ponderosity — n. Weight, gravity, heaviness, ponderousness …
93weightiness — n. 1. Ponderousness, gravity, heaviness. 2. Solidity, force, impressiveness. 3. Importance, gravity, consequence, moment …
94weight — I. n. 1. Heaviness, gravity, ponderousness, ponderosity. 2. Pressure, burden, load. 3. Importance, influence, power, efficacy, consequence, moment, significance, import, pith. 4. Scale, mode of estimating weight, measure, system of weighing. II.… …
95ponderous — adjective 1 moving slowly or awkwardly because of being very big and heavy: an elephant s ponderous walk 2 boring and too serious: a ponderous and difficult book, intended for experts 3 very big and heavy: Calvin s way was blocked by the… …
96forced — forced, labored, strained, farfetched are comparable when they mean produced or kept up through effort and, therefore, neither natural nor easy nor spontaneous. Forced is the widest in range of application of any of these terms, being referred… …
97massive — massive, massy, bulky, monumental, substantial are comparable when they mean impressively large or heavy. Massive distinctively stresses solidity and strength of construction and may imply an imposing appearance {its ceilings . . . heavy with… …
98gravity — n 1. dignity, solemnity, soberness, dourness, grimness, gloominess; austerity, asceticism, severity. 2. seriousness, significance, importance, import, full meaning; momentousness, magnitude, enormity, weight, ponderousness …
99heaviness — n 1. heft, heftiness, weight, weightiness, ponderousness, gravity; size, volume, mass, substance, bulk, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, amplitude. 2. turbulence, tempestuousness, storminess, wildness, roughness. 3. graveness, seriousness,… …
100overweight — n 1. overbalance, excess baggage, excess, Commerce. overage. 2. obesity, fatness, excess weight, Euph. weight problem, overheaviness, overponderousness; heaviness, heftiness, weightiness, ponderousness, ponderosity; rotundity, portliness,… …
