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Word Meanings - BEHINDHAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some

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1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

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  • BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
    1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
  • LOITERER
    1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
  • PROCRASTINATOR
    One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything.
  • PROCRASTINATE
    To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay;
  • PROCRASTINATION
    The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness. Procrastination is the thief of time. Young.
  • 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:
  • LOITERINGLY
    In a loitering manner.
  • PROCRASTINATORY
    Of or pertaining to procrastination; dilatory.
  • BACKWARDATION
    The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
  • BACKWARDLY
    1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Perversely; ill. And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.
  • TARDY
    1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
  • DAWDLER
    One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
  • RELUCTANTLY
    In a reluctant manner.
  • BACKWARD
    1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward
  • LAGGARD
    Slow; sluggish; backward.
  • SLUGGISH
    1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power
  • BEHINDHAND
    1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
  • LAGGINGLY
    In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
  • LOITER
    1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers. 2. To wander as an idle vagrant. Spenser.
  • LAGGING
    The clothing , as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading. 2. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
  • BASTARDY
    1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.
  • INDILATORY
    Not dilatory.
  • SLAGGY
    Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.
  • DASTARDY
    Base timidity; cowardliness.

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