单词 | laggardly |
释义 | laggardlyadj. Having the character or spirit of a laggard; hesitant, slow, sluggish. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > tardy or sluggish lateeOE latredec897 latelyOE slowfulc1400 latesomea1425 languoring?c1425 sluggedc1430 tardy1483 tediousc1485 hooly1513 longsome1543 lingeringa1547 tarde1547 slow-worm1548 tardious?1572 lagging1597 snail-slow1600 snail-paced1601 snail-like1639 languid1646 dilatory1648 sluggish1648 languishing1693 laggard1702 lentitudinous1801 laggardly1826 lag-last1862 slowpoke1872 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 335 Some laggardly editorless..periodical. 1939 ‘C. S. Forester’ Captain Hornblower i. i. 14 Some laggardly or unlucky sailor. 1959 R. E. Campbell I would do it Again xii. 85 Needless to say the men were not laggardly. 1975 Economist 3 May 123/3 To improve the laggardly money market. 1988 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 40/1 [Crossword clue] What the laggardly dressmaker should do to a hem (5, 2). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈlaggardly ˈlaggardly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly slacklyc960 latelyOE heavilyc1000 hoolya1340 sluggedlyc1450 sluggishlyc1450 tarryingly1530 loiteringly1547 tediously1557 languishingly1579 limpingly1579 lingeringly1589 unnimbly1607 longsomelyc1610 tardilya1616 a-sluga1620 sluggingly1653 languidly1655 dilatorily1700 heavy1701 lagginglyc1817 laggardly1835 slack1854 slackly1884 logily1912 1835 E. B. Pusey Let. in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. i. 8 [It] hardly seems to come heartily, because it has not come before, but comes laggardly. < adj.1826 as lemmas |
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