Word Meanings - DILATORINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DILATORINESS)

• Procrastination
• Dilatoriness
• delay

Related words: (words related to DILATORINESS)

• PROCRASTINATION
  The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness. Procrastination is the thief of time. Young.
• DILATORINESS
  The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
• DELAY
  A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more
• DELAYER
  One who delays; one who lingers.
• DELAYINGLY
  By delays. Tennyson.
• DELAYMENT
  Hindrance. Gower.
• ROUNDELAY
  See ROUNDEL