laggard

1. 1.

   wasting time

   Synonymsdilatorypokypokey

   Similarslow

Other forms of laggard

plural

laggards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laggard

What does laggard mean?

laggard means "someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laggard?

laggard has 2 syllables: lag-gard. The stress falls on "lag". In IPA it is /ˈlæɡɚd/.

What is another word for laggard?

Close synonyms include dawdler, drone, lagger, trailer, poke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laggard a common word?

laggard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.