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Noun laggard has 1 sense

• laggard(n = noun.person) dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind; Array
is a kind of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
has particulars: lingerer, loiterer, plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, potterer, putterer, straggler, strayer
Derived form verb lag₁

Adjective laggard has 1 sense

• laggard(s = adj.all) dilatory, pokey, poky - wasting time; Array

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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

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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.

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