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What is the adjective for ponders?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs ponder and ponderate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ponderous
  1. Heavy, massive, weighty.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive.
  3. Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
  4. Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
  5. (rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering.
  6. (obsolete) Dense.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. clumsy, awkward, lumbering, maladroit, uncoordinated, graceless, blundering, unco, lubberly, laborious, clodhopping, elephantine, slow, heavy-footed, slow-moving, like a bull in a china shop, ungainly, bumbling, gawky, inept, ungraceful, unhandy, klutzy, gauche, bungling, inelegant, heavy-handed, oafish, all thumbs, butterfingered, inexpert, unskilful, unwieldy, gawkish, gangling, clownish, unskillful, stumbling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, cack-handed, all fingers and thumbs, cumbersome, bovine, shambling, wooden, unadept, hulking, lumpish … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “In addition to hauling their own weight, the ponderous vehicles must plow about 17 tons of air out of their way every mile!”
      “The ponderous shoes soon galled the duchess to such a degree that she took off the thick, irritating worsted stockings and hob-nailed shoes, preferring to journey along the stony road without such incumbrances.”
      “Under the ponderous weight of innumerable little icicles, large branches of trees were broken off in every direction.”
ponderable
  1. (physics) Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.
  2. Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
  3. (rare) Heavy; ponderous.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. considerable, substantial, appreciable, heavy, weighty, significant, massive, consequential, big, major, sizable, fundamental, notable, noteworthy, serious, critical, meaningful, landmark, important, forceful, sensational, potent, memorable, striking, decisive, conclusive, large, exceptional, momentous, eventful, climacteric, glaring, newsworthy, mighty, much, fateful, strong, portentous, unforgettable, pressing, distinctive, glorious, urgent, headline, front-page, outstanding, high priority, noticeable, great, high-level … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “There are forces outside military power more visible and ponderable than these.”
      “For Gingrich, though, everything is ponderable, particularly the imponderables.”
      “To me the strangest aspect of randomness is its role as a link between the world of mathematical abstraction and the universe of ponderable matter and energy.”
pondersome
  1. Marked by pondering or musing; thought-provoking; pensive; puzzling
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contemplative, intriguing, introspective, meditative, reflective, ruminative, thoughtful
  3. Examples:
      4. “Yet The Cry is not a pondersome, dull collection of critical views.”
      “They were adventurous tales, quirky and funny, but always pondersome.”
ponderative
  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to pondering or deliberation
pondered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ponder
  2. Synonyms:
      3. thought, reflected, deliberated, considered, contemplated, analyzed, debated, dwelled, dwelt, evaluated, figured out, meditated, reasoned, ruminated, understood, analysed, appraised, apprehended, brainstormed, brooded, cogitated, comprehended, concentrated, discerned, examined, figured, intellectualised, minded, mused, processed, rationalised, speculated, stewed, studied, weighed, wondered, cerebrated, chewed, ideated, intellectualized, logicalized, mulled, puzzled over, racked brains, rationalized, sorted out, excogitated, lucubrated, put on thinking cap, used one's head … more
pondering
  1. present participle of ponder
  2. Synonyms:
      3. considering, contemplating, studying, wondering, thinking, cerebrating, examining, ruminating on, evaluating, questioning, reviewing, cogitating, debating, deliberating, entertaining, excogitating, meditating, perpending, philosophising, philosophizing, ruminating, weighing, appraising, brooding, dwelling, figuring, minding, mooning, mulling, musing, reasoning, reflecting, revolving, rolling, speculating, turning, woolgathering, dwelling on, thinking about, wrestling with, deliberating about, poring over, reflecting on, ruminating about, speculating about, weighing up, brooding on, brooding over, chewing on, cogitating on … more
ponderated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ponderate
ponderating
  1. present participle of ponderate
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