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loafing

verb , present participle of loaf

Synonyms and Antonyms of loafing

to spend time doing nothing

the kind of sultry August afternoon that makes you just want to loaf

Synonyms of loafing

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

Words Related to loafing

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 loafing

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of loafing

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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