cunctatory

English

Etymology

From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”).

Adjective

cunctatory

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

Derived terms

• cunctation