Laggard \Lag"gard\, a. [Lag + -ard.]
Slow; sluggish; backward.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Laggard \Lag"gard\, n.
One who lags; a loiterer.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
laggard
adj 1: inclined to waste time and lag behind [syn: dilatory]
2: wasting time [syn: dilatory, poky, pokey]
n : someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags
behind [syn: dawdler, drone, lagger, trailer]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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