cunctative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cunctari (“to delay”), +‎ -ive.

Adjective[edit]

cunctative (comparative more cunctative, superlative most cunctative)

  1. (rare) Inclined to delay
    • 1911, Edwin Dingle, Across China on Foot‎[1]:
      He knows that when properly developed his country will be one of the richest in the world, yet even when he is filled with such ideas he is just as cunctative as he has ever been.
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