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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

plodding en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

Forms

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most plodding Degree=Sup lexicographic
more plodding Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

ploddingly · unplodding · ploddingness

plodding en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Slow, laborious progress.
    • 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. 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems:
    • Many a game is won by mere steady plodding. 1963 March, “Chess Quiz”, in Chess Review:

Forms

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ploddings Number=Plur lexicographic

plodding en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of plod
    form of plod