noun
- People who delay or postpone action; those who procrastinate or are habitually slow to act.
Usage: plural of cunctator; formal or literary; derived from Latin cunctari (to delay)
Examples
- The cunctators on the committee delayed the decision for months.
- History remembers Fabius Maximus as one of Rome's greatest cunctators, whose strategy of delay defeated Hannibal.
- Cunctators often miss deadlines because they wait until the last moment.
- The project suffered because the team was full of cunctators unwilling to commit to a timeline.