different between tedious vs plodding

tedious

English

Alternative forms

  • tædious (archaic)
  • teedyus

Etymology

Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taedi?sus, from Latin taedium (weariness, tedium).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ti?.d??s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?ti.di.?s/, /?ti.d??s/
  • Rhymes: -i?di?s

Adjective

tedious (comparative more tedious, superlative most tedious)

  1. Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wearisome

Derived terms

  • tediously
  • tediousness

Related terms

  • tedium

Translations

Anagrams

  • Outside, dies out, outside, side out, sudoite

tedious From the web:

  • what tedious mean
  • what's tedious in irish
  • what tedious mean in spanish
  • what's tedious in french
  • what tedious homily of love
  • what's tedious in german
  • tedious what does it mean
  • tedious what is the definition


plodding

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.

plodding From the web:

  • what plodding mean
  • plodding what does it mean
  • what does plodding along mean
  • what do plodding mean
  • what does plodding mean in the bible
  • what is plodding
  • what does plodding
  • what is plodding in a sentence
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like