plodding

plodding

1. present participle of plod

plodding (comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding)

1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

• ploddingly
• ploddingness

plodding (plural ploddings)

1. Slow, laborious progress.
   • Jean Ingelow

     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.