plodding

English

Verb

plodding

1. present participle and gerund of plod

Adjective

plodding (comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding)

1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

Derived terms

• ploddingly
• ploddingness

Noun

plodding (countable and uncountable, plural ploddings)

1. 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.