ponderously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With the appearance of great weight.
Example Sentences
- "Sir Ernest Heavywether rose ponderously."
- "Rooney and his team-mates started ponderously, as if sensing the enormity of the occasion, but once Scholes began to link with Ryan Giggs in the middle of the park, the visitors increased the tempo with Sunderland struggling to keep up."
- "A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ponderous Middle English -ly English -ly English ponderously From ponderous + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more ponderously (comparative)
most ponderously (superlative)