grindingly
- adverb
- /ˈɡraɪndɪŋli/
:
de manera tediosa
- The project's grindingly slow progress frustrated the entire team, who had hoped to finish much earlier.
- grindingly slow
Examples
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The best hope of cracking it is to be grindingly thorough with the help of computer number one.
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But if it's grindingly slow, what kind of Earth would be left to pay the cost of interstellar culture?
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The job required a grindingly tedious attention to detail that made everyone feel exhausted by the end of the day.
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Listening to the grindingly monotonous lecture made it difficult for the students to stay awake.
Synonyms
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4.9
Continuing without stopping in a strong, determined way
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7.0
Very hard and tiring, needing a lot of physical effort
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5.5
In a serious and determined way without showing any joy
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8.2
In a very painful or strong way
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7.9
In a way that makes something very difficult or uncomfortable
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7.7
You do something with great effort that makes you very tired
Antonyms
How Harsh
Surface Forms
Morphology
grindingly = grinding (semi-transparent) = grind + ing + ly
Formed by adding '-ly' to 'grinding', but the adverbial meaning 'extremely harsh/tedious' is an idiomatic extension of the literal sense and not fully predictable from the base.
Etymology
Grindingly also grew to mean something slow, hard, and without stop because the root grind 'to crush' gives the image of a stone that keeps turning and wears you down. That's why grindingly can describe work or weather that goes on without stopping and feels very tiring.