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Meaning of "ploddingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLODDINGLY

ploddingly  [ˈplɒdɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLODDINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ploddingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES PLODDINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ploddingly in the English dictionary

The definition of ploddingly in the dictionary is at a slow and steady pace.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLODDINGLY


accordingly
əˈkɔːdɪŋlɪ
astoundingly
əˈstaʊndɪŋlɪ
blindingly
ˈblaɪndɪŋlɪ
bodingly
ˈbəʊdɪŋlɪ
chidingly
ˈtʃaɪdɪŋlɪ
condescendingly
ˌkɒndɪˈsendɪŋlɪ
correspondingly
ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndɪŋlɪ
despondingly
dɪˈspɒndɪŋlɪ
exceedingly
ɪkˈsiːdɪŋlɪ
forebodingly
fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋlɪ
misleadingly
ˌmɪsˈliːdɪŋlɪ
noddingly
ˈnɒdɪŋlɪ
outstandingly
ˌaʊtˈstændɪŋlɪ
pleadingly
ˈpliːdɪŋlɪ
resoundingly
rɪˈzaʊndɪŋlɪ
scoldingly
ˈskəʊldɪŋlɪ
slidingly
ˈslaɪdɪŋlɪ
understandingly
ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋlɪ
unendingly
ʌnˈɛndɪŋlɪ
yieldingly
ˈjiːldɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLODDINGLY

ploat
plod
plodded
plodder
plodding
ploddingness
plodge
Plomer
plonge
plonk
plonker
plonking
plonko
plook
plooky
plop
plopped
plopping
plosion
plosive

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLODDINGLY

amazingly
astonishingly
convincingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
shockingly
sickeningly
singly
sparingly
strikingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
unknowingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of ploddingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ploddingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLODDINGLY

Find out the translation of ploddingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ploddingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ploddingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ploddingly
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ploddingly
570 millions of speakers

English

ploddingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ploddingly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ploddingly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ploddingly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ploddingly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ploddingly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ploddingly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lekap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

same
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ploddingly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ploddingly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ploddingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ploddingly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ploddingly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भयानकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ploddingly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ploddingly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ploddingly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ploddingly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ploddingly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ploddingly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ploddingly
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ploddingly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ploddingly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ploddingly

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLODDINGLY»

The term «ploddingly» is used very little and occupies the 171.355 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLODDINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ploddingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ploddingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ploddingly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLODDINGLY»

Discover the use of ploddingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ploddingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language
(35) Lynn is slower / more rapid / more apt / more ploddingly slow than Helen ever was. (*more slow, *rapider, *apter, *ploddingly slower) (36) The slower / more detailed, the better / more interesting. (Booij 2002: 316 note 7) The availability of ...
Milan Rezac, 2010
2
China
... city limits on the end of Qianyuan Bei Lu, which runs 250m south to Huang Shan Lu; there are connections to Hefei (via Xuancheng and Wuhu), Nanchang, Shanghai, Xiamen and Beijing, along with a useful - though ploddingly slow — daily ...
David Leffman, Simon Lewis, Jeremy Atiyah, 2003
3
Matthew: Poet, Historian, Dialectician
The kind of thinking that ploddingly takes one day at a time just to endure unto death, whereupon allegedly one finally grasps the Eternal, is a pathetic and virtually evil way of viewing reality. The kind of thinking that ploddingly takes merely ...
Marshell Carl Bradley, 2007
4
Librarianship and Literature: Essays in Honour of Jack Pafford
'The one', he wrote, 'works ploddingly upwards from experience and finds religion and God at the end of it, never entertaining a doubt that a sound philosophy must find its place for a fact of experience so indefeasible as God, and the worship ...
A. T. Milne, 2014
5
Distributed Morphology Today
Although many manner adverbs, such as ploddingly in ploddingly slow, do not have natural PP paraphrases, for leSS idiomatic modifiers it can be demonstrated that PP adverbials also block synthetic comparative formation: the adverbial PP ...
Ora Matushansky, Alec Marantz, 2013
6
A Treasury of Vivid Newsweek English: The New, Ideal Way to ...
(Newsweek February 28, 2005 - "Laura, Sitting Pretty" - From an interview by Tamara Lipper) plodding: proceeding slowly and tediously as in "the movie just plods along" adverb: ploddingly ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ...
Francis G. Johann, 2010
7
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop ...
The book that started the Quiet Revolution At least one-third of the people we know are introverts.
Susan Cain, 2012
8
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
So the 20th Century — so whizzed the Limited — roared by and left three men, still hungry on the tracks, ploddingly watching the tail lights wizen and converge, slipping gimleted and neatly out of sight. * The last bear, shot drinking in the ...
David Lehman, 2006
9
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad.
Matthew Kneale, 2010
10
The In-between of Writing: Experience and Experiment in ...
... but cannot be inherited and handed down from the past; each new generation, indeed every human being as he inserts himself between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave it anew. (BPF 13) This path of ...
Eleanor Honig Skoller, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLODDINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ploddingly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Ashes: the pitch is rising to feverish
Ploddingly slow decks in the first two Tests have given rise to the conspiracy theory that they were prepared to blunt Mitch Johnson in particular. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
So you wanna know about RAKs, huh?
Not long ago, I saw a driver stop her car, get out and pick up one of those gopher tortoises that was ploddingly making its way across the street. «Ocala, Jul 15»
3
Patch Tuesday: Not dead yet
Rather than ploddingly roll out a new OS every three years, Microsoft will continually deliver new tools and functionality, new user interface (UI) ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
4
Resistance heroine who waged war with a teddy: Fearless, often …
LUCIE AUBRAC by Sian Rees. It is disappointing then that Rees's account of her life is so ploddingly told. The raw ingredients are there but the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
5
Daily Reads: Rethinking 'Sharknado,' the Fearless Pessimism of …
... given that it affects a much more visible character, that it's pitched so shrilly, and that her sexual demands become so ploddingly redundant. «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
6
Review: Irrational Man and the incredible shrinking worldview of …
... given that it affects a much more visible character, that it's pitched so shrilly, and that her sexual demands become so ploddingly redundant. «The Verge, Jul 15»
7
Theatre archeology
Some of the Broadway Legacy books in the Oxford University series have been pedestrian, or ploddingly academic. Not so this one. «Bay Area Reporter, Jul 15»
8
TV Review: Sex explored in Showtime's 'Masters of Sex' and the …
Masters of Sex is sometimes ploddingly literal - it's about two people deeply immersed in the study of the physical act of sex. While it's still one ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
9
'Stop': Karlovy Vary Review
This may well be Kim's ploddingly sincere take on a serious matter, but it feels like a cheap attempt to add gravitas to a film that would otherwise ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
10
Am I enjoying the heatwave? No, I'm at my desk
I suspect what made Kanye “stronger” was the usual dull blend of talent, luck and ploddingly persistent hard work. As for the great man himself, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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