Plodding vs Leaden - What's the difference?
plodding | leaden |
Slow, laborious progress.
* (Jean Ingelow)
(dated) Made of lead.
Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
* Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
Dull; darkened with overcast.
* 1999: Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
As adjectives the difference between plodding and leaden
is that plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously while leaden is (dated) made of lead.As a verb plodding
is .As a noun plodding
is slow, laborious progress.plodding
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* ploddingly * ploddingnessNoun
(en noun)- 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.
leaden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
- the sky was leaden and thick
- "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."