plodding

1. 1.

   (of movement) slow and laborious

   “leaden steps”

   Synonymsleaden

   Similareffortful

Other forms of plodding

plural

ploddings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plodding

What does plodding mean?

plodding means "hard monotonous routine work". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plodding?

plodding has 2 syllables: plod-ding. The stress falls on "plod". In IPA it is /ˈplɑdɪŋ/.

What is another word for plodding?

Close synonyms include drudgery, grind, donkeywork, plod, leaden. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plodding a common word?

plodding is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.