plodding
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
hard monotonous routine work
Types & categories
- toil hypernym
Related & opposite
- labour derivation
Sense 2 adjective
(of movement) slow and laborious
leaden steps
Related & opposite
- effortful similar to
Sense 3 noun
the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
I could recognize his plod anywhere
Types & categories
- walk hypernym
Related & opposite
- trudge derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | labour |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | toil |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | effortful |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | trudge |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | walk |