lagging
The word “lagging” has 2 syllables: lag-ging
It's pronounced as /ˈlæɡɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for lagging?
In the thesaurus, “lagging” has 97 synonyms and 75 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for lagging along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for lagging
- ambling
- arrested
- behind
- breaking down
- checked
- crawling
- creeping
- dallying
- dawdling
- decaying
- decelerating
- degenerating
- delayed
- delaying
- deliberate
- dense
- deteriorating
- diddling
- dilatory
- dillydallying
- dragging
- drooping
- dropping behind
- dull
- easing
- emaciating
- fading
- failing
- falling behind
- feeble-minded
- filibustering
- flagging
- fooling around
- going
- hanging fire
- heavy-footed
- idling
- imbecile
- inactive
- inching
- inert
- laggard
- lallygagging
- languid
- languishing
- late
- leisurely
- lethargic
- lingering
- loafing
- loitering
- lolling
- lollygagging
- lounging
- lumbering
- marking time
- measured
- messing around
- moping
- moronic
- playing
- plodding
- pokey
- poking
- poky
- procrastinating
- rotting
- running down
- sagging
- sauntering
- shilly-shallying
- shuffling
- sinking
- slow
- slow-footed
- slowing
- sluggish
- snail-paced
- snaillike
- staggering
- stalling
- strolling
- stupid
- subnormal
- tardy
- tarrying
- temporizing
- trifling
- underdeveloped
- underprivileged
- undeveloped
- unhurried
- weakening
- wearing out
- wilting
- withering
- yielding
Antonyms for lagging
- accelerated
- accelerating
- barreling
- barrelling
- bolting
- bowling
- breakneck
- breathless
- breezing
- brisk
- careering
- catching up
- convalescing
- coursing
- darting
- dashing
- dizzy
- expeditious
- fast
- fast-forwarding
- fleet
- flying
- gaining
- galloping
- hastened
- hastening
- hasty
- humping
- hurried
- hurrying
- hurtling
- hustling
- intelligent
- jogging
- lightning
- meteoric
- outpacing
- outrunning
- outstripping
- overtaking
- prompt
- quick
- quickened
- quickening
- racing
- rallying
- rapid
- ready
- rebounding
- recovering
- recuperating
- ripping
- rocketing
- running
- rushed
- rushing
- scooting
- scrambling
- scudding
- scurrying
- smart
- snappy
- speeding
- speedy
- sprinting
- stampeding
- swift
- tearing
- trotting
- warp-speed
- whirling
- whirlwind
- whisking
- whizzing
- zipping
Meanings of lagging
- verb
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
- To transport as a punishment for crime.
- To cause to lag; to slacken.
- noun
- The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection.
- The material so used.
- A prison sentence.
- adjective
- Falling behind, not keeping up the pace.
- Occurring after; indicating the later phase of.
Example Sentences
- Despite efforts to improve, his grades were still lagging behind.
- The company's lagging sales prompted a comprehensive marketing review.
- In cold weather, proper insulation prevents lagging of pipes.
- The team identified lagging productivity as a key issue to address in the upcoming meeting.
- Lagging behind in technological advancements can put a business at a competitive disadvantage.
On this page you'll find 172 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to lagging, such as: accelerated, accelerating, ambling, arrested, barreling, barrelling, behind.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
dallying
- aestivating
- ambling
- amorous
- amusing
- apathetic
- apathy
- arch
- asleep on the job
- backward
- behindhand
- bumming
- careless
- cavorting
- chilling
- comatose
- come-hither
- come-on
- coquetting
- coquettish
- courting
- coy
- crawling
- creeping
- dabbling
- dalliance
- dawdling
- decelerating
- delaying
- deliberate
- delighting
- diddling
- dilatory
- dillydallying
- directionless
- disporting
- diverting
- dozing
- dragging
- droning
- dropping behind
- drowsy
- dull
- easing
- entertaining
- enticing
- estivating
- falling behind
- filibustering
- flagging
- flightiness
- flippancy
- flirting
- flirty
- flummery
- folly
- fooling
- fooling around
- footling
- fribble
- frippery
- frisking
- frisky
- frivoling
- frivolling
- frivolousness
- frolicking
- fun
- furloughing
- futile
- gaiety
- gamboling
- gambolling
- game
- giddiness
- goldbricking
- good-for-nothing
- hanging
- hanging about
- hanging fire
- heavy-footed
- hibernating
- idle
- idleness
- idling
- inactive
- inattentive
- inching
- incompetent
- indifferent
- indolence
- indolent
- inert
- inertia
- jest
- jesting
- joking
- joshing
- kicking around
- kicking back
- kidding
- killing time
- kittenish
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- lallygagging
- languid
- languor
- languorous
- lassitude
- late
- lax
- laziness
- lazing
- lazy
- lazying
- leading on
- leisurely
- lethargic
- lethargy
- levity
- libidinous
- lifeless
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- lingering
- listless
- listlessness
- loafing
- loitering
- lolling
- lollygagging
- lounging
- lumbering
- malingering
- manipulating
- marking time
- mashing
- measured
- messing
- messing around
- monkeying
- moping
- moratory
- moseying
- mucking
- neglectful
- negligent
- nonsense
- out of it
- passive
- piddling
- play
- playing
- pleasing
- plodding
- pokey
- poking
- poky
- procrastinating
- puerility
- putting off
- putting on
- rambling
- razzing
- recreating
- relaxing
- remiss
- resting
- ribbing
- rollicking
- romping
- sauntering
- screwing around
- shallowness
- shiftless
- shiftlessness
- shilly-shallying
- shuffling
- skylarking
- slack
- sleepy
- sloth
- slothful
- slow
- slow-footed
- slow-moving
- slowing
- sluggish
- sluggishness
- snail-like
- snail-paced
- snaillike
- snoozy
- somnolent
- spoony
- sport
- sporting
- sportive
- staggering
- stalling
- stringing along
- strolling
- superficiality
- supine
- supineness
- swanning
- tardy
- tarrying
- teasing
- temporizing
- time-wasting
- tired
- torpid
- toying
- trifling
- triviality
- truanting
- unambitious
- unconcerned
- unenergetic
- unhasty
- unhurried
- unindustrious
- unmotivated
- unpersevering
- unready
- vamping
- vegging out
- volatility
- weary
- whimsicality
- whimsy
- wooing
- worthless
ebbing
- abatement
- abating
- alleviating
- at end of rope
- atrophy
- atrophying
- backsliding
- breaking down
- ceasing
- ceasing to exist
- closing
- collapsing
- comedown
- compressing
- concluding
- condensing
- constricting
- contracting
- corrupting
- cropper
- crumbling
- de-escalating
- debilitating
- debilitation
- decay
- decaying
- declension
- declinatory
- decline
- decline and fall
- declining
- decomposing
- decreasing
- decrepitude
- decrescent
- deflating
- degeneracy
- degenerating
- degeneration
- degrading
- dematerialization
- departure
- depreciating
- descending
- descent
- desertion
- desisting
- deteriorating
- deterioration
- devolution
- devolving
- dilapidating
- diminishing
- diminution
- disappearing act
- discontinuing
- disintegrating
- disintegration
- dispersal
- dissipation
- dissolution
- dive
- done for
- doomed
- downfall
- downgrade
- downsizing
- downturn
- drooping
- drop
- dropping
- dwindling
- dying
- dying down
- easing
- ebb
- eclipse
- ending
- enfeeblement
- escape
- evanescence
- evaporating
- evaporation
- exhaustion
- exit
- exodus
- expiring
- fade-out
- fading
- fading away
- failing
- failure
- fall
- fall-off
- falling
- falling away
- falling-off
- fated
- final
- finishing
- flagging
- flight
- flop
- giving out
- giving up the ghost
- going
- going to pot
- going to seed
- in extremis
- lagging
- languishing
- lapse
- lapsing
- leaving off
- lessening
- letting up
- lightening
- limping
- losing momentum
- loss
- lowering
- melting
- moderating
- moldering
- moribund
- mortal
- narrowing
- on last leg
- on the skids
- one foot in grave
- palling
- passing
- perishing
- phasing down
- plummeting
- plunging
- pratfall
- putrefying
- quieting
- quitting
- receding
- recession
- reducing
- regressing
- regression
- relapse
- relaxing
- relenting
- remitting
- removal
- retirement
- retrograding
- rotting
- running down
- running to seed
- sagging
- senility
- setback
- settling
- shrinking
- shriveling up
- sinking
- skids
- slackening
- sliding
- slipping
- slowing
- slump
- slumping
- softening
- souring
- spoiling
- stopping
- subsiding
- tapering
- tapering off
- terminating
- toppling
- tottering
- tumbling
- undermining
- vanishing
- wane
- waning
- wasting
- weakening
- wearing away
- wearing down
- wearing off
- wilting
- winding up
- withdrawal
- withering
- worsening
sagging
- abating
- abject
- ailing
- all torn up
- atrabilious
- beat-up
- bedraggled
- bent
- biconcave
- billowing
- black
- bleak
- blob
- bottomward
- bowed
- bowing
- breaking down
- broody
- bulging
- bummed out
- bump
- bunch
- bunching
- burst
- cascading
- cast down
- cheerless
- clouded
- collapsing
- contracted
- contracting
- convexity
- crestfallen
- crummy
- crumpling
- cupped
- dampened
- dangling
- dashed
- de-escalating
- decaying
- declined
- declining
- decreasing
- decrepit
- degenerating
- dented
- depreciating
- depressed
- descendant
- descendent
- descending
- despondent
- deteriorating
- dilation
- diminishing
- dimpled
- dingy
- dipped
- dipping
- disconsolate
- discouraged
- disheartened
- dismal
- dispirited
- distention
- dog-eared
- doleful
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- down-at-the-heel
- downcast
- downgrade
- downhearted
- downhill
- downward
- dragged
- drained
- drooping
- droopy
- dropping
- dwindling
- dying down
- earthward
- ebbing
- emaciating
- empty
- enervated
- excavated
- excess
- excrescence
- exhausted
- faded
- fading
- fading away
- failing
- falling
- fatigued
- flabby
- flaccid
- flagging
- flexuous
- floppy
- frowzy
- gibbosity
- gloomy
- glum
- going
- gone to seed
- gravitating
- groundward
- growth
- grubby
- hanging
- heavy-hearted
- hollow
- hollowed
- hump
- hung
- hurting
- ill-fitting
- in a bad way
- in the pits
- inclining
- incurvate
- incurvated
- incurved
- indented
- inferior
- intumescence
- irresilient
- jut
- kaput
- lagging
- languid
- languishing
- languorous
- lassitudinous
- lax
- leaden
- lessening
- lethargic
- letting up
- lightening
- limp
- listless
- lolling
- loose
- losing momentum
- low
- low-spirited
- lowering
- lump
- mangy
- melancholy
- messy
- miserable
- moderating
- moody
- mopey
- mopish
- morose
- narrowing
- neglected
- nether
- nodding
- nodulation
- nodule
- old
- out of condition
- out of shape
- outgrowth
- outthrust
- overgrown
- oversize
- pendant
- pendent
- pendulous
- plummeting
- plunging
- poor
- poorly
- pouch
- precipitating
- projection
- prominence
- promontory
- protrusion
- protuberance
- punctured
- quieting
- ragged
- ratty
- receding
- relaxed
- relenting
- roomy
- rotting
- round
- rounded
- running down
- rusty
- sac
- sad
- saggy
- salience
- scooped
- scruffy
- shabby
- shapeless
- shot down
- shrinking
- shriveling up
- shrunken
- sickly
- sinking
- slack
- slackening
- slacking
- sleazy
- sliding
- slipping
- sloppy
- slouching
- slouchy
- slovenly
- slowing
- slumping
- soft
- softening
- spiritless
- squalid
- stooped
- stooping
- subjacent
- subsiding
- sunken
- superfluity
- suspended
- swagging
- swelling
- tacky
- tapering
- tapering off
- tattered
- tender
- threadbare
- tired
- tiring
- to the bottom
- toneless
- torn
- tuberosity
- tumefaction
- tumor
- under
- underneath
- unfit
- unkempt
- unshapely
- untidy
- unwell
- used-up
- waning
- wart
- wasting
- weak
- weakening
- wearing down
- wearing off
- wearing out
- weeping
- wilted
- wilting
- withering
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- worn
- wretched
- yielding
fading
- blanching
- bleaching
- blenching
- blurring
- breaking down
- brightening
- clearing
- clearing out
- dead
- decadent
- decamping
- decampment
- decaying
- deceased
- decline
- declining
- decolorizing
- defunct
- degenerating
- degeneration
- dematerializing
- demised
- departed
- departing
- departure
- deteriorating
- deterioration
- dimming
- disappearance
- disappearing
- dispersing
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- dissipation
- dissolution
- dissolving
- drooping
- dropping out of sight
- drying up
- dulling
- dying
- egress
- emaciating
- emigration
- etiolating
- evacuation
- evanescent
- evanescing
- evaporating
- evaporation
- exit
- exiting
- exodus
- expiring
- fadeaway
- failing
- fallen
- farewell
- flagging
- fleeing
- flying
- frosting
- going
- gone
- growing dimmer
- hazy
- lagging
- languishing
- leave-taking
- leaving
- lifeless
- lightening
- matting
- melting
- moribund
- paling
- parting
- passed away
- passing
- passing away
- quitting
- regression
- relapse
- retirement
- retreat
- rotting
- running down
- sagging
- silvering
- sinking
- snowing
- terminal
- vanishing
- washing out
- weakening
- wearing out
- whitening
- whitewashing
- wilting
- withdrawal
- withering
- worsening
- yielding
failing
- acting up
- blemish
- blind spot
- blot
- bombing
- breaking
- breaking down
- chagrining
- cheating
- collapsing
- coming a cropper
- coming to grief
- coming up empty
- corruption
- crashing
- cratering
- crumbling
- cutting out
- debased
- debauched
- debilitated
- decadent
- decayed
- decaying
- deceiving
- declining
- defaulting
- defeated
- defect
- deficiency
- deficient
- degenerate
- degenerating
- degraded
- deluding
- demerit
- demoralized
- depraved
- depravity
- dereliction
- deteriorating
- disappointing
- discontenting
- disenchanting
- disgruntling
- disillusioning
- displeasing
- disregarding
- dissatisfying
- dissipated
- dissolute
- distressing
- drawback
- drooping
- dying
- dying on the vine
- effete
- emaciating
- enervate
- enervated
- enfeebled
- error
- evil
- fading
- failure
- faint
- falling flat
- falling short
- fault
- feeble
- feet of clay
- fizzling
- flagging
- flaming out
- flaw
- flopping
- floundering
- flunking
- foible
- folding
- forgetting
- foundering
- frail
- frailty
- giving out
- going
- going under
- ignoring
- immoral
- immorality
- imperfection
- imploding
- inadequate
- infirmity
- insufficient
- jamming
- lagging
- languid
- languishing
- laying an egg
- letting down
- malfunctioning
- minus
- miscarriage
- miscarrying
- misfiring
- misfortune
- missing
- missing out on
- mocking
- neglecting
- nit
- omitting
- overlooking
- overpassing
- overrefined
- overripe
- passing over
- precious
- pretermitting
- rotting
- running down
- sagging
- sapped
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- self-destructing
- short
- shortcoming
- shy
- sin
- sinfulness
- sinking
- skidding
- skipping
- sliding
- slighting
- slipping
- slumping
- soft
- soft spot
- spot
- sputtering
- stain
- stalling
- striking out
- struggling
- tanking
- unavailing
- unprosperous
- unsuccessful
- unsufficient
- unthriving
- upsetting
- vain
- vice
- waning
- want
- wanting
- washed-up
- washing out
- wasted
- weak
- weak point
- weakened
- weakening
- weakness
- wearing out
- wheezing
- wickedness
- wilting
- wimpy
- withering
- yielding