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Banal vs Plodding - What's the difference?

banal | plodding | Related terms |

Banal is a related term of plodding.


As adjectives the difference between banal and plodding

is that banal is common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh while plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously.

As a verb plodding is

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As a noun plodding is

slow, laborious progress.

banal

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

    • Synonyms

    * cliche, * corny * everyday * hackneyed * prosaic * trite * vapid * meh * See also

    Antonyms

    * new * original

    Related terms

    * banality * banalize * banally

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    plodding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Progressing slowly and laboriously.

    • Derived terms

    * ploddingly * ploddingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Slow, laborious progress.
  • * (Jean Ingelow)
    • 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.