laggard
Use Laggard in a sentence
ərd noun
1.
a person or thing that lags; lingerer; loiterer.
adjective
2.
moving, developing, or responding slowly; sluggish; dilatory; backward.
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laggard (ˈlæɡəd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who lags behind |
| 2. | a dawdler or straggler |
| —adj | |
| 3. | rare sluggish, slow, or dawdling |
| 'laggardly | |
| —adv | |
| 'laggardness | |
| —n | |
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Laggard
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is digress. Does it mean:
| to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot or study |
| not politic, expedient, or judicious; unwise |
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Example sentences
Its economy is in the doldrums, the laggard of the euro area.
Except for a laggard quality in the ballet movements, it moves with a mettlesome step.
For so long a laggard in the euro area, its economy is now growing faster than the regional average.
It once more finds itself surrounded by doubt and dismissed as a laggard.
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