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lazing

verb , present participle of laze

Synonyms and Antonyms of lazing

to spend time doing nothing

the kind of sultry August day that makes you want to do nothing but laze

Synonyms of lazing

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

Words Related to lazing

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 lazing

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of lazing

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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