[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plod \plod\, v. i. imp.  p. p. plodded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   plodding. gf. gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike
   or pelt with a clod or clods.
   1. to travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and
      patiently. "plodding schoolmen." --drayton.
      1913 webster
see also:
plodded plodding 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plodding \plod"ding\, a.
   progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
   laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding
   student; a man of plodding habits. --plod"dingly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
plod"dingly 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

plod
     v : walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
         "mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" syn: slog,
          footslog, trudge, pad, tramp
     also: plodding, plodded
see also:
slog footslog trudge pad tramp plodding 
plodded 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

plodding
     adj : of movement slow and laborious; "leaden steps" syn: leaden
     n 1: hard monotonous routine work syn: drudgery, grind, donkeywork
     2: the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
see also:
leaden drudgery grind donkeywork 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

plodding
     see plod
see also:
plod 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

181 moby thesaurus words for "plodding":
   application, arid, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, banausic,
   barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bulldog tenacity, characterless,
   cold, colorless, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing,
   dead, diligence, diligent, dim, dismal, dogged,
   dogged perseverance, doggedness, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
   drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
   endurance, enduring, engrossment, etiolated, fade, faithful,
   fidelity, flat, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heavy, ho-hum,
   hollow, humdrum, immutable, inalterable, inane, indefatigability,
   indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry,
   inexcitable, insipid, insistence, insistency, insistent,
   invincible, jejune, laboring, lasting, leaden, lifeless,
   low-spirited, loyal, loyalty, monotone, monotonous, never-tiring,
   obstinacy, obstinate, pale, pallid, patience, patience of job,
   patient, patient as job, pedestrian, pegging, permanence,
   permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence,
   persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
   pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plugging, pointless, poky,
   ponderous, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, relentless,
   relentlessness, resolute, resolution, sedulity, sedulous,
   sedulousness, single-minded, single-mindedness,
   singleness of purpose, slaving, sleepless, slogging, slow, solemn,
   spiritless, stability, stable, stamina, staying power, steadfast,
   steadfastness, steadiness, steady, sterile, stick-to-itiveness,
   stiff, stodgy, straining, striving, struggling, stubborn,
   stubbornness, stuffy, superficial, sweating, tasteless, tedious,
   tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness,
   toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged,
   undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
   unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlively, unnodding, unrelaxing,
   unrelenting, unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving,
   unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying,
   unwinking, utterly attentive, vapid, weariless, wooden, working

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