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droning

verb , present participle of drone

Synonyms and Antonyms of droning

1 to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound

the sound of droning bees all around us

Synonyms of droning

bumbling, burring, buzzing, humming, whirring, whishing, whizzing, zipping, zooming

Words Related to droning

chirring, churring

fizzing, hissing, murmuring, purring, rustling, sighing, sizzling, swishing, whispering

cooing, curring

wheezing, whistling, whooshing

2 to spend time doing nothing

instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents

Synonyms of droning

bumming, chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, 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 droning

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 droning

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of droning

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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