Micawberish ambling antipathy arrest arrestation arrestment averseness aversion backward backwardness blockage blocking cautious cautiousness check circumspect circumspection claudicant clogging closing up closure constriction cramp crawling creeping creeping like snail cursoriness dallying delay delaying deliberate deliberateness deliberation detainment detention dilatory dillydallying disagreement disinclination disobedience disrelish dissent distaste drawl easy easygoing faltering fixation flagging fractiousness gentle gradual grudging consent grudgingness halting hampering hindering hindrance hobbled hobbling holdback holdup idle idleness impediment indisposedness indisposition indocility indolence indolent inertia inertness inhibition interference interruption intractableness lack of enthusiasm lack of zeal lackadaisical laggard lagging languid languor languorous lax laziness lazy leisureliness leisurely lentitude lentor let limping lingering loitering lumbering moderate mutinousness negativism nolition nuisance value obstinacy obstruction obstructionism occlusion opposition perfunctoriness pokiness poking poky procrastinating procrastinative procrastinatory recalcitrance recalcitrancy refractoriness refusal relaxed reluctance reluctant remiss renitence renitency repression repugnance resistance restraint restriction retardation retardment sauntering setback shuffling slack slackness sloth slothful slow slow as death slow as molasses slow as slow slow-crawling slow-foot slow-going slow-legged slow-moving slow-paced slow-poky slow-running slow-sailing slow-stepped slowness sluggardy sluggish sluggishness snail-paced snaillike squeeze staggering stranglehold stricture strolling stubbornness sulk sulkiness sulks sullenness suppression tentative tentativeness toddling tortoiselike tottering trudging turtlelike unenthusiasm unhurried unwillingness waddling