plodding

4 definitions found

plodding - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and
        patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." --Drayton.
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  Plodding \Plod"ding\, a.
     Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
     laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding
     student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.
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plodding - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  plodding
      adj 1: (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn:
             leaden, plodding]
      n 1: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding,
           grind, donkeywork]
      2: the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize
         his plod anywhere" [syn: plodding, plod]

plodding - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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