cunctatory
English
Etymology
From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”).
Adjective
cunctatory
- delaying; procrastinating
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin, OCLC 17841394, page 252:
- Indeed, for several weeks the time rushed by, and it was really only in the final month, when freedom grew palpably close, that every minute took on a crabwise, cunctatory manner, came near to stalling altogether.
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Derived terms
- cunctation