laggard

Word Origin & History

1702 (adj.), from lag (v.) + -ard. From 1757 as a noun.

At length the laggard hands of the clock were close together on the figure 6.

Not yet, Sire; he is no laggard if he reach it in three hours hence.

But if Reuben were laggard the innocent guardian dragon was early astir.

Sir, the gentleman from Georgia has learned much since 1861; but he is still a laggard.

All this I heard, and more than ever chafed at the slackness of our laggard steeds.

She had a way of calling to the laggard—hallooing, I believe it's supposed to be.

However, it may have been with his Pegasus, his mount for the hunt was no laggard.

I must have travelled at a laggard pace, if it is already midnight.

They knew that the laggard herds were racing with the storm.

Oh, guide this laggard pen To write of one who loved his fellow men!

adjective. inactive, sluggish

adjective. casual, unhurried

adjective. useless

adjective. unenthusiastic, unwilling

adjective. loose, baggy; inactive

adjective. lazy