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plodding
adjective as in blah
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in humdrum
adjective as in monotonous
Strongest matches
adjective as in onerous
Strongest matches
adjective as in pedestrian
adjective as in ponderous
adjective as in slow
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in slow-footed
Strongest match
Weak matches
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-going
- slow-moving
- slow-paced
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- torpid
- tortoiselike
adjective as in slow-going
Weak matches
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-moving
- slow-paced
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
adjective as in slow-paced
Weak matches
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-going
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
adjective as in stodgy
adjective as in untiring
Weak matches
- constant
- continued
- continuing
- dedicated
- devoted
- dogged
- eager beaver
- fireball
- firm
- go-go
- grind
- hyper
- incessant
- indefatigable
- indomitable
- inexhaustible
- jumping
- patient
- perky
- persistent
- pertinacious
- plugging
- resolute
- staunch
- steady
- strong
- tenacious
- tireless
- unceasing
- undeterred
- unfailing
- unfaltering
- unflagging
- unflinching
- unremitting
- unstinted
- unswerving
- unwavering
- unwearied
Example Sentences
And the plodding pace of the French justice system has a way of interfering with career plans, no matter what the ultimate ruling.
The tunes might be used to bang the drum to, but they provide a plodding pulse for American stamina.
Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
The fact that such views got airtime on a major network almost made the night's whole plodding exercise worthwhile.
The forensic evidence was, as usual, presented in a scientifically plodding manner.
Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.
I was plodding up the river, when I heard Gordon shouting two or three hundred yards behind.
Lamb had already decided he would give it to him as he came plodding his smug little way home some evening.
There were plodding lines of people, disciplined, carrying burdens, no bigger than ants at this distance.
Free to explore that weird city of plodding lives, of strange unexplained sounds, of ominously hidden activity!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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