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dragging

dragging

4.2
To continue very slowly in a tiring and boring way
  • adjective
  • /ˈdræɡɪŋ/
translation icon : tedioso
  • After a long day of work, I was dragging my feet on the way home.

Was a thump, A thump and a dragging sound.

Examples

  • The meeting felt like a dragging process with no clear end in sight.

  • The lecture was so boring that I found myself dragging through the material.

  • Like I'm, I am dragging myself through the mud.

  • And so NIH has been dragging behind because they still haven't truly seen that notion.

Synonyms

plodding
vsdragging
1 5.3

Moving or working slowly and without much energy

is slower and more painfully prolonged, requiring extra effort
draggy
vsdragging
7.5

Moving slowly because something pulls or holds it back

is about slow, tedious continuation rather than causing physical resistance

Antonyms

quickly
∞ 1.0

At a fast speed or without delay

swiftly
84 1.0

Quickly and smoothly

How Slow

dragging
4.2
slow
∞ 1.0
leisurely
30 3.4

Surface Forms

dragging positive

Morphology

dragging = drag (transparent) = drag + ing

Standard adjectival use of the present-participle '-ing' on the verb 'drag' yields the sense 'moving/causing to move slowly' which learners can derive from 'drag'.

Etymology

Dragging comes from the verb drag, which used to mean 'to pull along the ground', like moving a heavy bag very slowly. That's why when we say a meeting or a movie is 'dragging' we mean it feels painfully slow and hard to get through.