dilatoriness
81lassitude — n 1. languor, languidness, lethargy, sluggishness, loginess, heaviness, slow motion, slowness; drowsiness, sleepiness, soporiferousness, oscitance, oscitancy; stagnation, stagnancy, stagnance, inaction, inactivity, inactiveness, inexertion,… …
82lateness — n 1. tardiness, unpunctuality, unpunctu alness; slowness, laggardness, lagging, loitering, lingering, tarrying, dallying, dilly dallying, dawdling, hanging back. 2. delay, cunctation, procrastination, dilatoriness, procrastinativeness;… …
83neglect — v 1. disregard, take no note or notice of, pass over, pretermit; ignore, overlook, look the other way, blink at, wink at, connive at; let [s.t.] ride, gloss over, make light of, shake off; pass by, Inf. give [s.t.] a miss. 2. omit, forget, lose… …
84procrastination — n 1. delay, postponement, deferment, deferral; adjournment, suspension, abeyance, moratorium, prorogation; dilatoriness, prevention, forestallment, forestalling, Law. laches; obstruction, blockage, blocking, avoidance, evasion; temporiza tion,… …
85tardiness — n lateness, slowness, dilatoriness, cunc tation, Inf. pokiness; sluggishness, indolence, sloth, inertia, laziness, torpor; lethargy, languor; dawdling, fiddling around, Sl. screwing around, frittering away one s time; reluctance, hesitation,… …
86dilatory — /ˈdɪlətri / (say diluhtree), / təri/ (say tuhree) adjective 1. inclined to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy; not prompt. 2. intended to bring about delay, gain time, or defer decision: a dilatory strategy. –phrase 3. dilatory plea, Law a form… …
87dilatory — meaning ‘given to or causing delay’, is pronounced dil tǝ ri. The same stress pattern applies, rather more awkwardly, to the derivative forms dilatorily and dilatoriness …
88laziness — [n] unwillingness to work, be active apathy, dilatoriness, do nothingness, dormancy, dreaminess, drowsiness, dullness, faineance, faineancy, heaviness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lackadaisicalness, languidness,… …
89refusal — The act of one who has, by law, a right and power of having or doing something of advantage, and declines it. Also, the declination of a request or demand, or the omission to comply with some requirement of law, as the result of a positive… …
90dilatory — ► ADJECTIVE 1) slow to act. 2) intended to cause delay. DERIVATIVES dilatoriness noun. ORIGIN Latin dilatorius, from dilator delayer …
