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dallying

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of dallying

moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed

the dallying diners seemed oblivious to the fact that other customers were impatiently waiting for tables

Synonyms of dallying

crawling, creeping, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky (or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried

Words Related to dallying

deliberate, measured

inactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounging

lingering, loitering, tarrying

ambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footed

strolling

decelerating, slowing

filibustering, procrastinating, stalling

Near Antonyms of dallying

expeditious, prompt, ready

accelerated, hastened, quickened

hurried, rushed

Antonyms of dallying

barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping

dallying

verb , present participle of dally

Synonyms and Antonyms of dallying

1 to engage in activity for amusement

he spent his college years dallying, seemingly determined to acquire as little knowledge as possible

Synonyms of dallying

disporting, frolicking, playing, recreating, rollicking, skylarking, sporting, toying

Words Related to dallying

cavorting, frisking, gamboling (or gambolling), romping

dabbling, trifling

amusing, diverting, entertaining

delighting, pleasing

dabbling, fiddling (around), messing around, puttering (around)

bumming (around), dawdling, goldbricking, hanging, hanging about [British], idling, loafing, lounging (around or about), relaxing, resting, screwing around, slacking (off)

jesting, joking, teasing

Near Antonyms of dallying

drudging, laboring, plodding, plugging (away), slaving, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, working

2 to move or act slowly

don't dally on the way to the interview

Synonyms of dallying

crawling, creeping, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging (also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying

Words Related to dallying

fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

hanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, lounging

ambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strolling

decelerating, slowing (down or up)

filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing

Phrases Synonymous with dallying

dragging one's feet (also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time

Near Antonyms of dallying

bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampeding

galloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trotting

accelerating, quickening, speeding (up)

catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking

Antonyms of dallying

barreling (or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping

3 to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun

she spent the summer dallying with a guy renting the neighboring beach house

Synonyms of dallying

coquetting, flirting, frivoling (or frivolling), messing around, toying, trifling

Words Related to dallying

vamping

courting, mashing, wooing

joshing, kidding, putting on, razzing, ribbing, teasing

fooling, leading on, stringing along

manipulating, playing (with)

4 to spend time doing nothing

I kept dallying at my desk until I couldn't put off doing my work any longer

Synonyms of dallying

bumming, chilling, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about [British], hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out

Words Related to dallying

fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

dozing, estivating (also aestivating), hibernating

lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarrying

ambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanning

furloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting

Phrases Synonymous with dallying

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of dallying

drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, working

applying, buckling (down)

exerting, putting out

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