Synonyms and Antonyms of dallies
1
to engage in activity for amusement
- he spent his college years dallying, seemingly determined to acquire as little knowledge as possible
cavorts, frisks, gambols, romps
dabbles, trifles
amuses, diverts, entertains
delights, pleases
dabbles, fiddles (around), messes around, putters (around)
bums (around), dawdles, goldbricks, hangs, hangs about [British], idles, loafs, lounges (around or about), relaxes, rests, screws around, slacks (off)
jests, jokes, teases
drudges, labors, plods, plugs (away), slaves, strains, strives, struggles, sweats, toils, works
2
to move or act slowly
- don't dally on the way to the interview
crawls, creeps, dawdles, delays, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, lingers, loiters, lollygags (also lallygags), mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarries
fiddles (around), fools around, messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles
hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, lounges
ambles, eases, inches, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, staggers, strolls
decelerates, slows (down or up)
filibusters, procrastinates, stalls, temporizes
bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedes
gallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trots
accelerates, quickens, speeds (up)
catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakes
barrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips
3
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun
- she spent the summer dallying with a guy renting the neighboring beach house
vamps
courts, mashes, woos
joshes, kids, puts on, razzes, ribs, teases
fools, leads on, strings along
manipulates, plays (with)
4
to spend time doing nothing
- I kept dallying at my desk until I couldn't put off doing my work any longer
bums, chills, dawdles, dillydallies, drones, footles, goofs (off), hacks (around), hangs about [British], hangs (around or out), idles, kicks around, kicks back, lazes, lazies, loafs, lolls, lounges, vegges out (or veges out)
fiddles (around), fools, messes, monkeys, mucks, piddles, plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles
dozes, estivates (also aestivates), hibernates
lags, lingers, loiters, pokes, relaxes, rests, tarries
ambles, moseys, saunters, strolls, swans
furloughs, goldbricks, malingers, truants
drudges, grinds, grubs, humps, hustles, labors, moils, pegs, plods, plows, plugs, slaves, sweats, toils, travails, works
applies, buckles (down)
exerts, puts out
