See ponderously on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ponderous",
"3": "ly"
},
"expansion": "ponderous + -ly",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From ponderous + -ly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more ponderously",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most ponderously",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ponderously (comparative more ponderously, superlative most ponderously)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a ponderous manner; very slowly."
],
"id": "en-ponderously-en-adv-9AVczzSa",
"links": [
[
"ponderous",
"ponderous"
],
[
"slowly",
"slowly"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"With the appearance of great weight."
],
"id": "en-ponderously-en-adv-7pf9wx6e"
}
],
"word": "ponderously"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ly",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ponderous",
"3": "ly"
},
"expansion": "ponderous + -ly",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From ponderous + -ly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more ponderously",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most ponderously",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ponderously (comparative more ponderously, superlative most ponderously)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a ponderous manner; very slowly."
],
"links": [
[
"ponderous",
"ponderous"
],
[
"slowly",
"slowly"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"With the appearance of great weight."
]
}
],
"word": "ponderously"
}
Download raw JSONL data for ponderously meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.