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Boring vs Plodding - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between boring and plodding

is that boring is a pit or hole which has been bored while plodding is slow, laborious progress.

As verbs the difference between boring and plodding

is that boring is present participle of lang=en while plodding is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between boring and plodding

is that boring is causing boredom while plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously.

boring

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pit or hole which has been d.
  • * 1992 , J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications , p. 191:
    • It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.
  • Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing boredom.
    • What a boring film that was!

    Synonyms

    * dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious * See also

    Derived terms

    * *

    Related terms

    * bore * bored * boredom

    Anagrams

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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.