different between plodding vs unsexy

English

Verb

plodding

1. present participle of plod

Adjective

plodding (comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding)

1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.

Derived terms

• ploddingly
• ploddingness

Noun

plodding (countable and uncountable, plural ploddings)

1. Slow, laborious progress.
   • 1863, Jean Ingelow, Poems, "Honors"

     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.

English

Etymology

un- +? sexy

Adjective

unsexy (comparative unsexier, superlative unsexiest)

1. Not sexy.
2. (of research etc) Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding.

Translations

See also

• nonsexy

German

Etymology

un- +? sexy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?s?ksi/
• Hyphenation: un?se?xy

Adjective

unsexy (comparative unsexyer, superlative am unsexysten)

1. (informal) unsexy

Usage notes

• See sexy for notes on declension. The equivalent is also true of unsexy.

Further reading

• “unsexy” in Duden online