Stabilized, solid, finely divided polyamines with retarded activity which have a polyadduct covering prepared by partial surface reaction with water-insoluble, difunctional and/or higher functional polyisocyanates, which polyamines have a residual amino group content of from at least 75% to less than 99.9% of the amino groups originally present in the unstabilized polyamine, suspended in relatively high molecular weight polyhydroxyl compounds having molecular weights of from 62 to 10,000 and/or relatively high molecular weight polyamino compounds having molecular weights of from 32 to 10,000.