dilatory
C2CEFR level
84/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Slow to act, or intended to cause delay.
The defence was accused of using dilatory tactics to postpone the trial.
Law adjective
Intended to cause delay rather than to advance a matter.
Repeated dilatory applications prompted the tribunal to impose a strict timetable.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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