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Plodding vs Striding - What's the difference?

plodding | striding |

As verbs the difference between plodding and striding

is that plodding is while striding is .

As nouns the difference between plodding and striding

is that plodding is slow, laborious progress while striding is the act of one who strides; a long step.

As an adjective plodding

is progressing slowly and laboriously.

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.

    striding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who strides; a long step.
  • * 1804 , Thomas Brown, Poems (page 191)
    • How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!