Synonyms and Antonyms of kicks around
1
to give serious and careful thought to
- the board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office
chews over, cogitates, considers, contemplates, debates, deliberates, entertains, eyes, meditates, mulls (over), perpends, ponders, pores (over), questions, revolves, ruminates, studies, thinks (about or over), turns, weighs, wrestles (with)
muses (upon), reflects (on or upon), reminisces
analyzes, explores, reviews
concludes, reasons
second-guesses, speculates (about)
broods (about or over), dwells (on or upon), fixates (on or upon), frets (about or over), obsesses (about or over)
believes, conceives, opines
absorbs, assimilates, digests, drinks (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
doodles, fiddles (around), fools around, fribbles, goofs (around), hangs about [British], messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles
3
to spend time doing nothing
- spent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall
bums, chills, dallies, dawdles, dillydallies, drones, footles, goofs (off), hacks (around), hangs about [British], hangs (around or out), idles, 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
4
to move about from place to place aimlessly
- after spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home
bats, cruises, drifts, floats, gads (about), gallivants (also galavants), knocks (about), maunders, meanders, mooches, rambles, ranges, roams, roves, traipses, wanders
5
to inflict physical or emotional harm upon
- children who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around
abuses, brutalizes, bullies, ill-treats, ill-uses, maltreats, manhandles, messes over [slang], mishandles, mistreats, misuses
molests, outrages, violates
harasses, harms, hurts, injures, oppresses, persecutes, torments, tortures
burns, sandbags, victimizes, wrongs
beats (up), messes (up), roughs (up), works (over)
cares (for), cherishes, fosters, nurtures
babies, caters (to), coddles, favors, gratifies, humors, indulges, mollycoddles, pampers, spoils
