Antonyms for dilatory

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dil-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪl əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i

Definition of dilatory

Origin : late 15c., from Late Latin dilatorius, from dilator "procrastinator," from dilatus, serving as past participle of differe "delay" (see defer).

adj procrastinating

Example sentences :

The dilatory sportsman robs the pack of finding and himself of profit.
Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon

The dilatory habits of a decade were not so readily unlearned.
Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson

I had received more than a dilatory donkey on the road to the fair!
Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 » by Various

In no other way can his dilatory proceedings be accounted for.
Extract from : « The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 » by Samuel Adams Drake

The dilatory one was old Kelly; and him Forsythe shot through the heart.
Extract from : « The Wreck of the Titan » by Morgan Robertson

I never had such a dilatory damsel to make my first tent breakfast!
Extract from : « Betty Leicester » by Sarah Orne Jewett

General Sheridan's method of operation could hardly be held as dilatory.
Extract from : « The County Regiment » by Dudley Landon Vaill

He had been dilatory but now he intended to get down to business.
Extract from : « The Lady Doc » by Caroline Lockhart

It is in reality a most exhausting, dilatory, and humiliating exercise.
Extract from : « Scally » by Ian Hay

Whoever was dilatory, whoever was slow, the Gibeonites dared not be.
Extract from : « The Astronomy of the Bible » by E. Walter Maunder

Synonyms for dilatory

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