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laggingadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedthe lagging pace of work on the project was worrisome crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, leisurely, poking, poky(or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried deliberate, measuredinactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounginglingering, loitering, tarryingambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footedstrollingdecelerating, slowingfilibustering, procrastinating, stalling barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, quickenedhurried, rushed laggingverbpresent participle of lagto lose bodily strength or vigorduring the fourth quarter the whole team seemed to lag decaying, drooping, emaciating, fading, failing, flagging, going, languishing, sagging, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering breaking down, wearing outyieldingdegenerating, deteriorating, rotting, running down convalescing, rallying, rebounding, recovering, recuperatinggaining to move or act slowlythe tired puppy was lagging behind the rest of the pack crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking in 1851 |