plodding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of plod

comparative more plodding · superlative most plodding

1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

plural ploddings

1. countableuncountableSlow, laborious progress.

   Many a game is won by mere steady plodding.

   1963 March, “Chess Quiz”, in Chess Review

   1 more example

   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