Synonyms and Antonyms of kick around
1
to give serious and careful thought to
- the board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office
chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, eye, meditate, mull (over), perpend, ponder, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with)
muse (upon), reflect (on or upon), reminisce
analyze, explore, review
conclude, reason
second-guess, speculate (about)
brood (about or over), dwell (on or upon), fixate (on or upon), fret (about or over), obsess (about or over)
believe, conceive, opine
absorb, assimilate, digest, drink (in)
2
to spend time in aimless activity
- I really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions
doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
3
to spend time doing nothing
- spent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall
bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about [British], idle, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out
fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
doze, estivate (also aestivate), hibernate
lag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarry
amble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swan
furlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant
drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, work
apply, buckle (down)
exert, put out
4
to move about from place to place aimlessly
- after spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home
bat, cruise, drift, float, gad (about), gallivant (also galavant), knock (about), maunder, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, traipse, wander
5
to inflict physical or emotional harm upon
- children who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around
abuse, brutalize, bully, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, manhandle, mess over [slang], mishandle, mistreat, misuse
molest, outrage, violate
harass, harm, hurt, injure, oppress, persecute, torment, torture
burn, sandbag, victimize, wrong
beat (up), mess (up), rough (up), work (over)
care (for), cherish, foster, nurture
baby, cater (to), coddle, favor, gratify, humor, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil
