dilatory as an adjective: - 1
dilatory
adjective
1 dilatory
Wasting time.
synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky.
Roget 133:
late,
tardy,
slow,
behindhand,
serotine†,
belated,
postliminious†,
posthumous,
backward,
unpunctual,
untimely;
delayed,
postponed;
dilatory
etc.
(slow)
275;
delayed
etc.
v.;
in abeyance.
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Roget 275:
slow,
slack;
tardy;
dilatory
etc.
(inactive)
683;
gentle,
easy;
leisurely;
deliberate,
gradual;
insensible,
imperceptible;
glacial,
languid,
sluggish,
slow paced,
tardigrade†,
snail-like;
creeping
etc.
v.;
reptatorial†.
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Roget 683:
inactive;
motionless
etc.
265;
unoccupied
etc.
(doing nothing)
681;
unbusied†.
indolent,
lazy,
slothful,
idle,
lusk†,
remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine,
heavy,
dull,
leaden,
lumpish†;
exanimate†,
soulless;
listless;
drony†,
dronish†;
lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory,
laggard;
lagging
etc.
v.;
slow
etc.
275;
rusty,
flagging;
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle;
pottering
etc.
v.;
shilly-shally
etc.
(irresolute)
605.
sleeping,
etc.
v.;
asleep;
fast asleep,
dead asleep,
sound asleep;
in a sound sleep;
sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose;
in the arms of Morpheus,
in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy,
sleepful†;
dozy†,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent†,
lethargic,
lethargical†;
somnifacient†;
statuvolent†,
statuvolic†;
heavy,
heavy with sleep;
napping;
somnific†,
somniferous;
soporous†,
soporific,
soporiferous†;
hypnotic;
balmy,
dreamy;
unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative
etc.
174.
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Moby thesaurus: Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, dallying, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dragging, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragging, good-for-nothing, grudging, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, lax, lazy, leisurely, lingering, loath, loitering, lollygagging, neglectful, negligent, nonaggressive, parasitic, perfunctory, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reluctant, remiss, renitent, restive, scrounging, shiftless, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow to, sluggish, sponging, tarrying, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, unhasty, unhurried, unzealous, work-shy ... show more.
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