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Plodding vs Methodical - What's the difference?

plodding | methodical |

As adjectives the difference between plodding and methodical

is that plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously while methodical is in an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.

As a verb plodding

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun plodding

is slow, laborious progress.

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.

    methodical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
  • Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.
    • the methodical''' arrangement of arguments; a '''methodical treatise
  • * Addison
    • Methodical regularity.

    Synonyms

    * systematic

    Related terms

    * methodic * methodically * methodological