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Definition: Ponderously |
PonderouslyAdverb1. In an uninterestingly ponderous manner; "the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets". 2. In a heavy ponderous manner; "he moves ponderously". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ponderously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| "Ponderously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ponderously" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "ponderously": over-ponderously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ponderously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | schwerfällige. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | nehézkesen (haltingly, laboriously, lubberly, sullenly, uneasily). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onderouslypay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Ponderously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wonderously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ponderously" (pronounced 'Pon"der*ous*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: onerously, ponderous, splendour. | |
-3 letters: delusory, duopsony, nodulose, plunders, porously, pounders, roundels, splendor, unloosed, unsolder. | |
-4 letters: deploys, dolours, duopoly, elusory, enduros, leprosy, leprous, looneys, loopers, loudens, nodules, noodles, onerous, operons, pelorus, pleuron, plunder, polders, poleyns, ponders, poodles, pounder, presold, pronely, prosody, proudly, pylorus, pyrones, resound, respond, rondels, roundel, roundly, rundles, slurped, snooled, snooped, snooper. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6E 64 65 72 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -. -.. . .-. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o n d e r o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006E 0064 0065 0072 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081807071848187857891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | német |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, magyar |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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