Dawdling synonyms
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Part of speech:
A brief involvement or interest in something:
the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
To dawdle, delay, or linger:
(Games) To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.
Waste is defined as to destroy, wear away or use up.
To change between one state and another; fluctuate:
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To wait
To spend (time) doing minor or unimportant activities:
To postpone or delay needlessly.
To push; thrust:
To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away.
To get going; move along.
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To think gloomily and persistently about something; be dejected.
To linger in an aimless way; spend time idly
To spend time idly; loiter or lounge about; idle, dawdle, etc.
To spend in dreaming
To waste time in hesitation or vacillation; loiter or dawdle
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To waste time; dawdle
To postpone until a later time; defer.
Wile is defined as to trick or to spend time leisurely.
To grow so long as to extend along the ground, over rocks, etc.
To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul:
To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.
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rushing (antonym)
To move or go swiftly or impetuously; dash
hastening (antonym)
To speed up; accelerate:
speeding (antonym)
To send, convey, or cause to move, go, etc. swiftly
forwarding (antonym)
In or toward the future:
pushing (antonym)
To move forward against opposition
hurrying (antonym)
To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
fasting (related)
In a dissipated, immoderate way:
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To be a waiter or waitress at:
Find another word for dawdling. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for dawdling, like: dalliance, trifling, lingering, dallying, lagging, wasting, vacillating, toying, tarrying, puttering and procrastinating.