Synonyms and Antonyms of dragging one's feet
to move or act slowly
- I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort.
crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging (also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying
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
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
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
