Laggard
['lægəd]
Definition
(a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.
(n.) One who lags; a loiterer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Loiterer, lingerer, idler, lagger, saunterer.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loiterer, saunterer, dawdler, slow_goer, sluggard
ANT:{One_moving_quickly}
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Examples
- It awaited the family laggard, who found any sort of inconvenience (to others) less disagreeable than getting up when he was called. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is a close night, though the damp cold is searching too, and there is a laggard mist a little way up in the air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sensitive to the original forces of public opinion, no man has had the same power of rounding up the laggards. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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