With infinitive: not ready, prompt, or willing to do something; reluctant to do something.

Late, tardy, dilatory, slow. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Of a person: slow or tardy in action; procrastinating, dilatory. Formerly also: †tediously lengthy in writing, long-winded (obsolete). Now rare.

Given to or characterized by delay; slow, tardy. Of persons, their characters, habits, etc.

Slow-moving, dilatory; sneaking; stealing imperceptibly.

With infinitive. Slow or backward to do something. Obsolete.

Characterized by a tendency to postpone things or not hurry, esp. (in early use) as a result of an (overly) cautious or conservative nature…

dialect. Displaying little exertion or energy; slow, dilatory.