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HOME | Definition of plodding (PLODDING, Plodding)


    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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