0 in a way that is slow and awkward because of being very heavy or large:
He stood aside and the great vehicle moved ponderously out of the garage.
Every sentence is uttered ponderously, like a judge delivering a verdict.
"We have not researched the phenomenon extensively," Mark replied ponderously.
He started to dance, lifting each foot ponderously from the floor like a performing elephant.
It could have been a ponderously serious evening, but it wasn't.
There he finds not just individual tombs with an often ponderously ornate monumental architecture, making its potent statement about the worth of the deceased and his quality as an individual.
Heavily armored and nearly impervious to attack, his bulk also makes him ponderously slow.
