ploddingly

1. 1.

   in a plodding manner

   “this writer ploddingly accumulates detail after detail”

Questions about ploddingly

What does ploddingly mean?

ploddingly means "in a plodding manner".

How many syllables are in ploddingly?

ploddingly has 3 syllables and divides as plod-din-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ploddingly a common word?

ploddingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.