Definitions for laggard

laggard lag·gard

Spelling: [lag-erd]
IPA: /ˈlæg ərd/

Laggard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in laggard (aadgglr).

Definitions for laggard

noun

  1. a person or thing that lags; lingerer; loiterer.

adjective

  1. moving, developing, or responding slowly; sluggish; dilatory; backward.

Origin of laggard

First recorded in 1695-1705; lag1 + -ard

Examples for laggard

But if Reuben were laggard the innocent guardian dragon was early astir.

All this I heard, and more than ever chafed at the slackness of our laggard steeds.

I must have travelled at a laggard pace, if it is already midnight.

However, it may have been with his Pegasus, his mount for the hunt was no laggard.

The U.K. originally hung back from embracing such policies, and as a result was a laggard in developing a solar industry.

Sir, the gentleman from Georgia has learned much since 1861; but he is still a laggard.

At length the laggard hands of the clock were close together on the figure 6.

She had a way of calling to the laggard—hallooing, I believe it's supposed to be.

They knew that the laggard herds were racing with the storm.

Not yet, Sire; he is no laggard if he reach it in three hours hence.

Word Value for laggard
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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