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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAG'GARD, n. Slow; sluggish; backward. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey] n
1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1702 lagging or tending to lag ; dilatory • laggardly adverb or adjective • laggardness noun II. noun Date: 1705 one that lags or lingers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. a dawdler; a person who lags behind. --adj. dawdling; slow. Derivatives: laggardly adj. & adv. laggardness n. Etymology: LAG(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Laggard Lag"gard, a. [Lag + -ard.] Slow; sluggish; backward.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Laggard Lag"gard, n. One who lags; a loiterer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(laggards) If you describe a country, company, or product as a laggard, you mean that it is not performing as well as its competitors. The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Loiterer, lingerer, idler, laggard, saunterer.

Moby Thesaurus

Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, clock watcher, comatose, dallier, dallying, dawdle, dawdler, delaying, deliberate, diddler, dilatory, dillydallier, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dolittle, doodler, drone, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragger, foot-dragging, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-nothing, goof-off, grudging, idler, impassive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lagging, lax, lazy, lazybones, leisurely, lethargic, lie-abed, lingerer, lingering, loafer, loath, loiterer, loitering, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, nonaggressive, parasitic, perfunctory, phlegmatic, plodder, potterer, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinator, procrastinatory, putterer, reluctant, remiss, renitent, restive, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, sleepyhead, slothful, slouch, sloucher, slow, slow goer, slow to, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, sluggish, snail, sponging, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, unhasty, unhurried, unzealous, waiter on Providence, work-shy