backwardness
61Dislike — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dislike >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dislike dislike distaste disrelish disinclination displacency GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 reluctance reluctance Sgm: N 2 backwardness backwardness &c.(unwillingness) 603 …
62mental retardation — noun lack of normal development of intellectual capacities • Syn: ↑retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑subnormal (for: ↑subnormality), ↑ …
63retardation — noun 1. a decrease in rate of change (Freq. 1) the deceleration of the arms race • Syn: ↑deceleration, ↑slowing • Ant: ↑acceleration (for: ↑deceleration) …
64slowness — noun 1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑awkwardness, ↑clumsiness, ↑ineptness, ↑ineptitude, ↑maladroitness • Derivationally related forms: ↑slow, ↑ …
65subnormality — noun 1. the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) • Derivationally related forms: ↑subnormal • Hypernyms: ↑abnormality, ↑abnormalcy 2. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities • Syn: ↑reta …
66Behindhand — Be*hind hand , adv. & a. [Behind + hand.] [1913 Webster] 1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. [1913 Webster] 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate,… …
67central reserve cities — Reserve city Reserve city (Banking) In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required ( U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per… …
68Coyness — Coy ness, n. The quality of being coy; feigned o? bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve. [1913 Webster] When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. Syn: Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness;… …
69In reserve — Reserve city Reserve city (Banking) In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required ( U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per… …
70initial reserve — Reserve Re*serve , n. [F. r[ e]serve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. [1913 Webster] However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. That which …
