Plod \Plod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plodding.] [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike
or pelt with a clod or clods.]
1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and
patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." --Drayton.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Plodding \Plod"ding\, a.
Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plod
v : walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
"Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog,
footslog, trudge, pad, tramp]
[also: plodding, plodded]
WordNet (r) 2.0
plodding
adj : (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn: leaden]
n 1: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, grind, donkeywork]
2: the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
WordNet (r) 2.0
plodding
See plod
WordNet (r) 2.0
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "plodding":
application, arid, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, banausic,
barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bulldog tenacity, characterless,
cold, colorless, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing,
dead, diligence, diligent, dim, dismal, dogged,
dogged perseverance, doggedness, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
endurance, enduring, engrossment, etiolated, fade, faithful,
fidelity, flat, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heavy, ho-hum,
hollow, humdrum, immutable, inalterable, inane, indefatigability,
indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry,
inexcitable, insipid, insistence, insistency, insistent,
invincible, jejune, laboring, lasting, leaden, lifeless,
low-spirited, loyal, loyalty, monotone, monotonous, never-tiring,
obstinacy, obstinate, pale, pallid, patience, patience of Job,
patient, patient as Job, pedestrian, pegging, permanence,
permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence,
persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plugging, pointless, poky,
ponderous, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, relentless,
relentlessness, resolute, resolution, sedulity, sedulous,
sedulousness, single-minded, single-mindedness,
singleness of purpose, slaving, sleepless, slogging, slow, solemn,
spiritless, stability, stable, stamina, staying power, steadfast,
steadfastness, steadiness, steady, sterile, stick-to-itiveness,
stiff, stodgy, straining, striving, struggling, stubborn,
stubbornness, stuffy, superficial, sweating, tasteless, tedious,
tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness,
toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged,
undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlively, unnodding, unrelaxing,
unrelenting, unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving,
unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying,
unwinking, utterly attentive, vapid, weariless, wooden, working
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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