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Antonyms for ploddingplod·ding

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  1. plodding

    Antonyms:
    indiligent, unindustrious, distracted, inattentive, impatient, unpersevering, flighty, fitful

    Synonyms:
    painstaking, industrious, persevering, laborious, studious

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  1. drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeyworknoun

    hard monotonous routine work

    Antonyms:
    effortless

    Synonyms:
    pulverization, donkeywork, pulverisation, wonk, plod, nerd, grind, mill, dweeb, drudgery, swot

  2. plodding, plodadjective

    the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

    "I could recognize his plod anywhere"

    Antonyms:
    effortless

    Synonyms:
    grind, plod, donkeywork, drudgery

  3. leaden, ploddingadjective

    (of movement) slow and laborious

    "leaden steps"

    Antonyms:
    effortless

    Synonyms:
    leaden, weighted, heavy, dull

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  1. ploddingadjective

    Synonyms:
    hardworking, diligent

How to use plodding in a sentence?

  1. Senate Finance Committee:

    Everything here makes it tougher; we just have to keep plodding ahead.

  2. Aesop:

    Plodding wins the race.

  3. Englishman Fleetwood:

    Expectation's a tricky thing. It's clearly the next step for me to win over here, but winning's not easy and I've just got to keep plodding away.

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#23353distracted
#27965impatient
#31918effortless
#69724inattentive
#81499plodding
#119226fitful
#124538flighty

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