plodding Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hard monotonous routine work
    donkeywork; drudgery; grind.
  2. noun the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
    plod.
    • I could recognize his plod anywhere
  3. verb walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
    footslog; tramp; trudge; plod; slog; pad.
    • Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone
  4. adjective satellite (of movement) slow and laborious
    leaden.
    • leaden steps

WordNet

Plod"ding adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913