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What is another word for
dilatory
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Intended to cause delay or waste time
Slow to move or act
Characterized by sluggishness or weariness
Protracted, extending for a great period of time
Adjective
▲
Intended to cause delay or waste time
delaying
stalling
dallying
deferring
dilly-dallying
postponing
procrastinating
shelving
tabling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
time-wasting
dawdling
Fabian
lingering
loitering
tarrying
cunctative
moratory
putting off
hindering
obstructive
halting
retardant
“These
dilatory
strategies on the intellectual property front, indeed, can ruin the biodiversity richness of the country.”
Adjective
▲
Slow to move or act
slow
sluggish
unhurried
tardy
laggard
crawling
dawdling
creeping
leisurely
lagging
languid
snaillike
dallying
dillydallying
dragging
pokey
poking
poky
slothful
lazy
slack
lax
loitering
indolent
idle
delaying
procrastinating
lingering
unhasty
sluggardly
behindhand
lollygagging
unpunctual
tarrying
flagging
late
snail-paced
snail-like
slow-going
tortoise-like
slow-paced
lackadaisical
measured
deliberate
slow-moving
plodding
leaden
easy
lethargic
ponderous
phlegmatic
passive
delayed
listless
inert
torpid
moderate
tortoiselike
postponing
drowsy
dreamy
supine
gradual
remiss
apathetic
inactive
behind
belated
stagnant
sleepy
overdue
heavy
behind schedule
delinquent
running late
behind time
slow-footed
not on time
unrushed
casual
latish
relaxed
sedate
gentle
steady
comfortable
undemanding
fainéant
easy-going
regardless
moving slowly
long-delayed
held up
too late
behind target
draggy
shuffling
inching
foot-dragging
slow as molasses
painstaking
patient
barely moving
slow and steady
on hands and knees
labored
US
laboured
UK
leaden-footed
languorous
laggy
imperceptible
restful
daydreaming
uninterested
indifferent
free
relaxing
effortless
slackened
deferred
later
backward
jammed
postponed
laid-back
put off
hung up
last-minute
eleventh-hour
long-overdue
neglectful
negligent
careless
inattentive
derelict
slapdash
inefficient
slipshod
procrastinative
incompetent
disregardful
neglecting
slap-happy
disorganized
US
sloppy
offhand
disorderly
in arrears
otiose
pococurante
asleep at the wheel
quiescent
asleep on the job
do-nothing
disorganised
UK
unprofessional
slovenly
permissive
faineant
dormant
workshy
enervated
spiritless
limp
languishing
impassive
weary
dopey
unenthusiastic
comatose
snoozy
energyless
moony
sleepyhead
nebbish
leisured
blah
weak
unconcerned
blahs
pining
lymphatic
sickly
infirm
wimpy
faint
feeble
even
regular
laborious
lumbering
cumbersome
still
tired
recreational
amusing
frivolous
entertaining
dull
somnolent
non-job related
non-work related
fun
unenergetic
calm
Laodicean
continuous
droopy
restrained
circumspect
cautious
unspectacular
in your own time
at your own pace
lacking in energy
laid back
softly-softly
ongoing
continuing
without haste
happening slowly
without hurry
slow but sure
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“Dismantling such structures has proved difficult, and the process of economic reform has often been tentative,
dilatory
, and slow.”
Adjective
▲
Characterized by sluggishness or weariness
lethargic
sluggish
listless
torpid
languid
lazy
inactive
sleepy
slow
slothful
apathetic
lackadaisical
inert
languorous
drowsy
indolent
passive
enervated
somnolent
indifferent
idle
dull
tired
heavy
lifeless
phlegmatic
slumberous
dopey
spiritless
snoozy
impassive
laggard
comatose
unenergetic
fatigued
weary
shiftless
draggy
exhausted
quiescent
supine
stolid
dormant
blah
lackluster
US
lacklustre
UK
unenthusiastic
narcotic
debilitated
stupefied
sleepyhead
moony
wimpy
unmoving
nebbish
stretchy
laid-back
out of it
without energy
having spring fever
slow-moving
weak
lymphatic
neb
slack
unproductive
flagging
sedentary
burned out
spent
hebetudinous
slow-going
slow-paced
somnific
flat
lax
static
limp
stagnant
depressed
quiet
tardy
yawny
unresponsive
dead
faineant
fainéant
logy
insensitive
dozy
insensible
neurasthenic
asthenic
loafing
leaden
otiose
inattentive
groggy
vigourless
unconcerned
disinterested
workshy
numb
drugged
work-shy
lacking energy
lumpish
stupid
stuporous
down
lagging
dallying
procrastinating
heavy-eyed
bovine
half asleep
do-nothing
vigorless
good-for-nothing
emotionless
undemonstrative
unemotional
bone idle
passionless
languishing
easygoing
dispassionate
effete
detached
uninterested
energyless
unflappable
half-hearted
benumbed
vegetating
sleeping
out
hibernating
vegged out
out cold
out to lunch
soporous
soporose
insipid
plodding
uninspiring
negligent
yawning
uninspired
nodding
remiss
slumbrous
vapid
drony
resting
remote
unmoved
sluggard
characterless
dozing
sluggardly
sleepyheaded
mooney
off
drippy
dazed
knackered
dopy
restful
lacking in energy
calm
aloof
dog-tired
ready for bed
lacking vitality
half-asleep
done in
dead beat
all in
hardly able to keep one's eyes open
unreceptive
cool
poker-faced
vacant
mopish
insouciant
stoical
lukewarm
absent
neutral
bored
abstracted
heedless
careless
placid
unambitious
worthless
incompetent
aimless
unfeeling
impassible
inept
inefficient
unindustrious
unmotivated
uninvolved
deadpan
cold
uncompassionate
frigid
affectless
desensitized
US
dry
tranquil
unexcitable
irresponsible
unenterprising
desensitised
UK
feckless
improvident
directionless
ambitionless
along for the ride
cold-blooded
lacking in ambition
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Adjective
▲
Protracted, extending for a great period of time
long-drawn-out
lengthy
marathon
prolonged
protracted
interminable
overlong
extended
lasting
boring
dragged-out
dragging
drawn-out
far
great
lingering
long
long-lasting
long-lived
long-term
spun-out
tedious
time-consuming
boundless
delayed
diffuse
diffusive
late
limitless
long-winded
overextended
prolix
rambling
slow
sustained
tardy
unending
verbose
wearisome
wordy
seemingly endless
dragged out
for ages
spun out
without end
forever and a day
long-drawn
enduring
garrulous
circumlocutory
windy
circuitous
pleonastic
extensive
periphrastic
logorrheic
meandering
discursive
ambagious
redundant
palaverous
drawn out
digressive
loquacious
laborious
maundering
voluble
endless
repetitious
talkative
tautological
logorrhoeic
persistent
tortuous
long-standing
lengthened
turgid
strung out
stretched out
talky
wandering
chronic
ponderous
tiresome
circumlocutionary
full of verbiage
bombastic
gabby
chatty
sesquipedalian
continuing
continued
longish
running
very long
dull
gradual
progressive
draggy
conservative
empty
monotonous
painful
expansive
distant
increased
roundabout
continuous
gassy
constant
everlasting
continual
waffling
profuse
gruelling
UK
copious
epic
exuberant
grueling
US
random
lavish
waffly
unabating
spread out
abiding
broad
long-running
durable
expanded
of considerable length
elongate
deep
multiday
multiyear
flatulent
inflated
never-ending
ceaseless
unyielding
verbal
flowery
longevous
persisting
perennial
perdurable
permanent
advancing
pursuing
maintaining
persevering
sustaining
progressing
old as Methuselah
full of years
carrying on
effusive
mouthy
gossipy
conversational
multiloquent
gushing
big-mouthed
babbling
blathering
multiloquous
chattering
yakking
rhetorical
repetitive
with the gift of the gab
motormouthed
communicative
blabby
jabbering
chattery
padded
convoluted
glib
loose-lipped
gossiping
prattling
gibbering
slick
smooth
superfluous
having kissed the blarney stone
indirect
iterative
full of hot air
grandiloquent
pompous
orotund
able to talk the hind legs off a donkey
fustian
pretentious
oratorical
yacking
alliterative
wittering
reiterating
gobby
fluent
vocal
loudmouthed
rattling
prosy
elaborate
circumlocuitous
circumlocutional
circumlocutious
over-elaborate
outgoing
articulate
forthcoming
outspoken
overblown
uncalled-for
reiterative
inelegant
unneeded
unnecessary
drivellous
rhetoric
desultory
eloquent
open
unreserved
silver-tongued
motormouth
gaseous
noisy
excursive
leaping
loose
digressionary
digressional
excessively communicative
tumid
blessed with the gift of the gab
having kissed the Blarney Stone
running on
bigmouthed
vociferous
swollen
over-talkative
shallow
superficial
breezy
tumescent
spreading
free
musing
erratic
deviating
roaming
roving
informal
rhapsodic
lyrical
windbag
all jaw
big mouthed
prating
involved
magniloquent
tautologous
repeating
full of air
having kissed the Blarney stone
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