plodding

plodding
Synonyms and related words:
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

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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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plodding — index operose, painstaking, patient, pedestrian, pertinacious, stable, steadfast Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plodding — plod|ding [ˈplɔdıŋ US ˈpla: ] adj slow or thorough and not exciting ▪ plodding research …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • plodding — plod|ding [ pladıŋ ] adjective 1. ) working hard at a slow steady rate, but not very intelligent and lacking any good ideas of your own 2. ) slow and boring: a plodding and predictable movie …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • plodding — UK [ˈplɒdɪŋ] / US [ˈplɑdɪŋ] adjective 1) working hard at a slow steady rate, but not very intelligent and lacking any good ideas of your own 2) slow and boring a plodding and predictable film …   English dictionary

  • plodding — adjective Progressing slowly and laboriously …   Wiktionary

  • plodding — plÉ‘d /plÉ’d n. slow walk, labored walk v. walk laboriously, walk heavily, trudge; work hard, persist in a task …   English contemporary dictionary

  • plodding — a. Hard working, patiently laborious, painstaking, industrious …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • plodding — I noun 1. hard monotonous routine work (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑drudgery, ↑grind, ↑donkeywork • Derivationally related forms: ↑grind (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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