If you describe a country, company, or product as a laggard, you mean that it is not performing as well as its competitors. The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena. someone or something that is very slow or late (LAG)
One type of adopter in Everett Rogers' diffusion of innovations framework describing the risk adverse group that follows the late majority that is generally not interested in new technology and are the last group of customers to buy