Synonyms for dilatory
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or adjourn decision.
Related words
- Word family
- dilatoriness
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Dilatory signifies a proneness to defer, a habit of delaying the performance of what we know must be done.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- slow He who is slow to promise is best in keeping them.
- pokey Tom spent all night in the pokey.
- sluggish Mr. Smith ran his sluggish horse along the country roads.
- tardy They got the sack for being careless and tardy.
By length
- 4 letters
- slow1
- 5 letters
- slack1, tardy2, pokey2
- 6 letters
- remiss2, dreich
- 7 letters
- lagging2, laggard2
- 8 letters
- backward2, sluggish2, delayful
- 10 letters
- dilatatory
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tardy2 = 2 syllables).