Plodding

Verb

1. Present participle of plod

Full definition of plodding

Adjective

1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

Derived terms

• ploddingly
• ploddingness

Noun

1. Slow, laborious progress.
• Jean IngelowI'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.