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cunctatory

cunctatory adjective: delaying; procrastinating.

Adjective

cunctatory

  1. delaying; procrastinating
    • 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.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 252

Origin of cunctatory

From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”).

Words formed from cunctatory

Questions about cunctatory

What does cunctatory mean?
Cunctatory means delaying; procrastinating.
What part of speech is cunctatory?
Cunctatory is an adjective.

Words near cunctatory in the dictionary

  1. cunctatious
  2. cunctative
  3. cunctator
  4. cunctators
  5. cunctatorship
  6. cunctatory
  7. cunctipotent
  8. cund
  9. cundard
  10. cundards
  11. Cundare

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