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Costive

(formal) slow or reluctant to act; medically: constipated.

Stolid

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.

Requisite

necessary for a particular purpose; required or essential.

Precipitant

acting suddenly or hastily; done without careful thought.

Arrant

complete and utter (often used to emphasise a negative quality).

Ponderous

heavy and slow moving; laborious or dull, often because of length or weight.

Mirthless

lacking real amusement or joy; gloomy or cheerless.

Carousing

engaging in loud, lively, and often drunken merrymaking.

Mused

thoughtful or absorbed in thought (past tense/adjective from “muse”).

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