Word.ws English Dictionary

inched along

inched along is the simple past and past participle of inch along.

Meaning of inch along

Verb

inch along (third-person singular simple present inches along, present participle inching along, simple past and past participle inched along)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To move slowly or to make progress gradually, bit by bit.

Questions about inched along

What is inched along the simple past and past participle of?
Inched along is the simple past and past participle of inch along.

Words near inched along in the dictionary

  1. inchaunts
  2. Inchbald
  3. Inchbonnie
  4. Inchcape
  5. inched
  6. inched along
  7. inched away
  8. inched back
  9. inched forward
  10. inched up
  11. Incheon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inched along (page history and authors); inch along (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “inched along.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/inched_along. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.