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Definition of Plodding
1. Adjective. (of movement) slow and laborious. "Leaden steps"
2. Noun. Hard monotonous routine work.
Generic synonyms: Labor, Labour, Toil
Derivative terms: Drudge, Grind
3. Noun. The act of walking with a slow heavy gait. "I could recognize his plod anywhere"
Definition of Plodding
1. a. Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits.
Definition of Plodding
1. Verb. (present participle of plod) ¹
2. Adjective. Progressing slowly and laboriously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plodding
1. plod [v] - See also: plod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plodding
Literary usage of Plodding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"362 mere plodding, commonplace race of men that now filled " the line" he had
the m*st supreme contempt ; men who had never uttered a smart thing, ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"They are very shrewd, plodding, and frugal; but many of them are great scamps,
and they are almost all repulsive in their persons and their habits. ..."
3. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1853)
"But an old gentleman may—live to see him Chief Justice of England, for to plodding
and perseverance nothing is impossible." The dull and despised William ..."
4. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"... By plodding on may travel far. Wither. They who contract absurd habits are
such as have no fear. Johnson. They who crouch to those who are above them, ..."
5. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Freedman and Freeman Equal—plodding Outcasts—How they loved such Tenets—Voting
Unionism raised them above mere Tools of Labor—Sabazios, ..."
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