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arrested
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arrested
babbling, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blithering, blocked, bridled, burbling, callow, caught, charmed, checked, coarse, constrained, controlled, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, crude, curbed, defective, deficient, delayed, delayed-action, detained, dithering, driveling, drooling, embryonic, enchanted, enthralled, failing, fascinated, fixed, gripped, guarded, half-baked, half-witted, held, held up, hung up, hypnotized, hypoplastic, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, immature, impeded, in a bind, in abeyance, in arrear, in arrears, in check, in default, in embryo, in leading strings, in ovo, in remission, in short supply, in the rough, inadequate, incomplete, infant, inhibited, jammed, lacking, late, latish, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mesmerized, missing, mongoloid, moratory, moronic, needing, never on time, not all there, obstructed, on leash, overdue, oversimple, part, partial, patchy, pent-up, rapt, reductionistic, reductive, restrained, retarded, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, scant, scanty, scrappy, set back, short, shy, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, simplistic, sketchy, slobbering, slow, slowed down, spellbound, stopped, stunted, subnormal, tardy, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, under control, under discipline, under restraint, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unpunctual, unready, unrefined, untimely, untreated, unworked, unwrought, wantingFor further exploring for "arrested" in Webster Dictionary Online