laggard

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: lag=gard

CIDE DICTIONARY

laggard, a. [Lag + -ard.].

 Slow; sluggish; backward.  [1913 Webster]

laggard, n. 

 One who lags; a loiterer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

laggard, n. & adj.
--n. a dawdler; a person who lags behind.
--adj. dawdling; slow.

Derivative

laggardly adj. & adv. laggardness n.

Etymology

LAG(1)

THESAURUS

laggard

Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, clock watcher, comatose, dallier, dallying, dawdle, dawdler, delaying, deliberate, diddler, dilatory, dillydallier, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dolittle, doodler, drone, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragger, foot-dragging, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-nothing, goof-off, grudging, idler, impassive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lagging, lax, lazy, lazybones, leisurely, lethargic, lie-abed, lingerer, lingering, loafer, loath, loiterer, loitering, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, nonaggressive, parasitic, perfunctory, phlegmatic, plodder, potterer, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinator, procrastinatory, putterer, reluctant, remiss, renitent, restive, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, sleepyhead, slothful, slouch, sloucher, slow, slow goer, slow to, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, sluggish, snail, sponging, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, unhasty, unhurried, unzealous, waiter on Providence, work-shy

ROGET THESAURUS

laggard

Unwillingness

N unwillingness, indisposition, indisposedness, disinclination, aversation, nolleity, nolition, renitence, renitency, reluctance, indifference, backwardness, slowness, want of alacrity, want of readiness, indocility, scrupulousness, scrupulosity, qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience, delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil, hesitation, fastidiousness, averseness, dissent, refusal, unwilling, not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content, adverse, laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to, indifferent, scrupulous, squeamish, repugnant, restiff, restive, demurring, unconsenting, involuntary, unwillingly, grudgingly, with a heavy heart, with a bad, with an ill grace, against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain, invita Minerva, a contre caeur, malgre soi, in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself, nolens volens, perforce, under protest, no, not for the world, far be it from me.

Inactivity

N inactivity, inaction, inertness, obstinacy, lull, quiescence, rust, rustiness, idleness, remissness, sloth, indolence, indiligence, dawdling, ergophobia, otiosity, dullness, languor, segnity, segnitude, lentor, sluggishness, procrastination, torpor, torpidity, torpescence, stupor, somnolence, drowsiness, nodding, oscitation, oscitancy, pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep, slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep, Morpheus, Somnus, coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore, hypnology, dull work, pottering, relaxation, Castle of Indolence, lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, torpedo, idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus, do- little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant, bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone, lubber, lubbard, slow coach (slow, ), opium eater, lotus eater, slug, lag, sluggard, slugabed, slumberer, dormouse, marmot, waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus, inactive, motionless, unoccupied, 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, slow, rusty, flagging, lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle, pottering, shilly-shally, sleeping 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, inactively, at leisure, the eyes begin to draw straws, bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease, better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay, idly busy rolls their world away, the mystery of folded sleep, the timely dew of sleep, thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep, tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.