plodding
English edit
Verb edit
plodding
- present participle and gerund of plod
Adjective edit
plodding (comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding)
- Progressing slowly and laboriously.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
plodding (countable and uncountable, plural ploddings)
- Slow, laborious progress.
- 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems:
- I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.