Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin, literally "delayer"; applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is cunctate, more familiar in its noun form cunctator.”
“To attack Vowell for the people she cites in the acknowledgments section rather than specific examples from the text is the act of an amateurish cunctator.”
Virginia Heffernan: The Sarah Palin of Journalism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
“The foregoing is irrefutable evidence that the fool-killer is enacting the rôle of cunctator.”
“But no one was ever more undecided than the famous cunctator.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cunctator’.
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MuffinBurns's list
Words to dreams
rapture, cove, tingling, pahutakawa, pang, khop kun kop, hella, boffo, nirvana, flood, synchronicity, sysiphus and 9 more...
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passive
words of inaction
abeyance, bathetic, nullify, timorous, cunctator, reticent, inertia, stagnant, languid, staid, tarry, fallow and 13 more...
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Dirty Words?
flange, shunt, dictum, angina, cunctator, mastication, spelunker, shiitake, rimshot, arsole, forebulge, fecund and 34 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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cowsofoblivion's list
phantasmagoric, vicambulist, cunctator, octothorpe, quietus, zemblanity, glandular, portmanteau
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 160 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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solarider's Words
maelstrom, leviathan, apiology, deconstruction, confluence, minutiae, onomatopoeia, tardy, ad infintum, tocophobia, cuckold, oblique and 110 more...
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So little time...
i really need to bulk up my vocabulary
coccydynia, maudlin, etiolate, cenotaph, chthonic, orotund, eclat, spendthrift, incendiary, corpulent, parsimonious, bescumber and 91 more...
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Thrown - about tossed - Words
bal-; bol-; -bol; -ble and incau(gh)tious others
ballistic, ballad, symbol, bolide, ballet, problem, ball, parabola, parable, amphibole, boule, diabolical and 184 more...
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recent discoveries
weird, wonderful new additions to my lexicon.
hyperopia, cunctator, pilosity, bescumber, virago, gimcrack, roborant, besprinkle, crack spread, gewgaw, flagitious, ancillary and 37 more...
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Words that I love
vulva, crapulence, cunctator, atheist, ampersand, besotted, cumulative, tenacity, clusterfuck, quixotic, epitome, non sequitur and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cunctator.
milosrdenstvi Thrilling synonym for procrastinator. I love it. Mar 20, 2009
sionnach Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; “Cunctator�? 275–203 b.c., Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle. Feb 19, 2007