arrested (?.)
- babbling
- back
- backward
- behind
- behindhand
- belated
- blithering
- blocked
- bridled
- burbling
- callow
- caught
- charmed
- checked
- coarse
- constrained
- controlled
- crackbrained
- cracked
- crazy
- cretinistic
- cretinous
- crude
- curbed
- defective
- deficient
- delayed
- delayed-action
- detained
- dithering
- driveling
- drooling
- embryonic
- enchanted
- enthralled
- failing
- fascinated
- fixed
- gripped
- guarded
- half-baked
- half-witted
- held
- held up
- hung up
- hypnotized
- hypoplastic
- idiotic
- imbecile
- imbecilic
- immature
- impeded
- in a bind
- in abeyance
- in arrear
- in arrears
- in check
- in default
- in embryo
- in leading strings
- in ovo
- in remission
- in short supply
- in the rough
- inadequate
- incomplete
- infant
- inhibited
- jammed
- lacking
- late
- latish
- maundering
- mentally defective
- mentally deficient
- mentally handicapped
- mentally retarded
- mesmerized
- missing
- mongoloid
- moratory
- moronic
- needing
- never on time
- not all there
- obstructed
- on leash
- overdue
- oversimple
- part
- partial
- patchy
- pent-up
- rapt
- reductionistic
- reductive
- restrained
- retarded
- rough
- roughcast
- roughhewn
- rude
- rudimental
- rudimentary
- scant
- scanty
- scrappy
- set back
- short
- shy
- simple
- simpleminded
- simpletonian
- simplistic
- sketchy
- slobbering
- slow
- slowed down
- spellbound
- stopped
- stunted
- subnormal
- tardy
- unblown
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uncut
- under control
- under discipline
- under restraint
- underdeveloped
- undeveloped
- unfashioned
- unfinished
- unformed
- unhewn
- unlabored
- unlicked
- unpolished
- unprocessed
- unpunctual
- unready
- unrefined
- untimely
- untreated
- unworked
- unwrought
- wanting