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Pondering vs Plodding - What's the difference?

pondering | plodding |

As verbs the difference between pondering and plodding

is that pondering is while plodding is .

As nouns the difference between pondering and plodding

is that pondering is ruminations while plodding is slow, laborious progress.

As an adjective plodding is

progressing slowly and laboriously.

pondering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ruminations.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 18, author=Jim Coyle, title=Spoofing of premier a bad omen, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.}}

    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.