Crossword-Solution: PONDEROUSNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ponderousness | n. | The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PONDEROUSNESS”
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| AN OPPRESSIVE QUALITY THAT IS LABORIOUS AND SOLEMN AND LACKS GRACE OR FLUENCY | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with PONDEROUSNESS (5)
She kept Crossjay beside her till she dismounted, and the colonel was left to the procession of elephantine ideas in his head, whose ponderousness he took for natural weight.
The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure.
The heaviness of feature, the ponderousness of limb and movement, had all long disappeared from his race, most probably under the influence of climate, and his nose was prominent and graceful in outline, while his mouth and chin might have passed for having been under the chisel of some distinguished sculptor.
One of the most learned of the group was George Chapman, whose verse has a Jonsonian solidity not unaccompanied with Jonsonian ponderousness.
Something of formality and ponderousness quickly becomes evident in his style, together with a rather mannered use of potential instead of direct indicative verb forms; how his style compares with Johnson's and how far it should be called pseudo-classical, are interesting questions to consider.