lagger

Other forms of lagger

plural

laggers·

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 lagger

What does lagger mean?

lagger means "someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind".

How many syllables are in lagger?

lagger has 2 syllables: lag-ger. The stress falls on "lag".

What is another word for lagger?

Close synonyms include dawdler, drone, laggard, 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 lagger a common word?

lagger 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.