Word Meanings - LAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to 1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. Came too lag to see him buried. Shak. 2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life."

Additional info about word: LAG

faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to 1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. Came too lag to see him buried. Shak. 2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life." Shak. 3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. "Lag souls." Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAG)

• Dawdle
• Lag
• dally
• idle
• Drawl Drag
• lag
• drone
• Linger
• Tarry
• loiter
• saunter
• hesitate
• wait
• Saunter
• Roam
• linger
• stroll
• wander
• dawdle
• lounge
• Rest
• abide
• halt
• flag
• continue
• remain
• sojourn
• delay
• stop
• stay

Related words: (words related to LAG)

• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• ABIDER
  1. One who abides, or continues. "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.
• DALLY
  trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already;
• DRAWLINK
  See
• TARRY
  Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• LOITERER
  1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
• LOUNGER
  One who lounges; ar idler.
• DRAWL
  To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• DAWDLE
  To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray. (more info) Etym:
• CONTINUEDLY
  Continuously.
• STROLL
  To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift. Syn. -- To rove; roam; range; stray. (more info) dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about, Icel. strj to stroke, D.
• LOITERINGLY
  In a loitering manner.
• ABIDE
  1. To wait; to pause; to delay. Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv.
• HESITATE
  haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate
• DRAWLATCH
  A housebreaker or thief. Old Play .
• LOUNGE
  To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay. (more info) be fr. Longinus,
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• HEBDOMADALLY
  In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.
• DILLY-DALLY
  To loiter or trifle; to waste time.