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Plodding vs Trudging - What's the difference?

plodding | trudging |

As verbs the difference between plodding and trudging

is that plodding is present participle of lang=en while trudging is present participle of trudge.

As nouns the difference between plodding and trudging

is that plodding is slow, laborious progress while trudging is the act of one who trudges, or walks slowly and heavily.

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.

    trudging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who trudges, or walks slowly and heavily.
  • * 1841 , William Johnstoun N. Neale, The naval surgeon (page 136)
    • The unceasing fatigue of my daily walks to and from Clapham, with my various trudgings from one Doctor Humbug to another Doctor Whimsical, combined with the before-mentioned causes to affect my health.