Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disposed to linger or delay.
Wiktionary
- adj. delaying; procrastinating
Etymologies
- From Latin cunctor ("delay, impede"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Then at last the timorous, cunctatory worshiper of femininity in the abstract declared himself and prayed to know if the good news could be true.”
“Sigurd was cautious, prudentially cunctatory, though heartily friendly in his counsel to Olaf as to the King question.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cunctatory’.
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Stick Around
annotine, lasting, durable, everlasting, permanence, stable, abiding, immortal, hibernaculum, continual, dwelling-place, abiding-place and 57 more...
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jeffrey.t.whitney's list
sartorial, sabbatarian, sagacious, desiccate, ersatz, insouciant, atavistic, luddite, crwth, obdurate, stentorian, ruminate and 51 more...
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Kathy C's List
My favorite words
golconda, au fait, purlicue, tautonym, cunctatory, gynecomastia, vesta, imprimatur, efflux, antediluvian, protean, phlegmatic and 24 more...
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Pseudo-seduction
With which to confuse innocent ladies (or gentlemen, if you prefer) who might be invited to don a coverslut and come to tour an adulterine castle. Plausible deniability through lexicographical obsc...
adulterine, coverslut, cunctatory, puissant, quincunx, coccyx, groin vault, sexpartite vault, nookshaft, putlog hole, cuirass, mensuration and 35 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 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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Just Plain Weird.
Something about these words doesn't look or feel right. And yet... they're strangely appealing.
pumpkin, platypus, atlatl, pterodactyl, octopus, veldt, asparagus, aspic, lacquer, mastiff, weevil, lapis and 156 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Wordie words I didn't know
Stuff I leaned on the innernets & intertubes... ...specifically here at Wordie.
aeolian, terpsichorean, comestibles, glycyrrhizin, arctophile, buggerated fuckst..., vibrational coupling, tabescent, prunes and prisms, cunctatory, intertextualism
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Story of a Missing "S"
Words that end in -tory. This list is now in retirement and nothing you say will make me add to it. You owe many thanks to sionnach, reesetee, and oroboros for its untimely demise. It was fun while...
obligatory, purgatory, mandatory, moratory, crematory, sanatory, perfunctory, factory, liberatory, laboratory, inventory, nugatory and 46 more...
Tweets
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plutoman MUST use this word at work this week. Jul 21, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney Definition: Disposed to delay. Jun 9, 2009
reesetee A hell of a thing to say to a guy! Feb 19, 2007
chained_bear Wow. I hurt my eyes.
"Hey, Stan, the meeting started twenty minutes ago! You're cunctatory!" Feb 19, 2007
reesetee I have to say I can see why it *isn't* more well-known. :-> Feb 19, 2007
uselessness If it were more more well-known, it'd be a shoo-in for the No-No List. Feb 19, 2007
seanahan I'm going to have to work this word into a conversation this week, just to see the reaction. Feb 19, 2007