LOITERER Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

loiterer

noun

Definition of loiterer next

as in snail

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others she yelled at the loiterers at the end of the line to hurry up

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Recent Examples of loiterer Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway. —

Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for loiterer

Noun

And from a costume design aspect, what Pluribus afforded for me, is to do two extremes, in doing that strip-down of the Joining where clothes become absolutely a necessity and nothing else, like a snail in a shell kind of thing.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 May 2026
In the middle of a sculptural fountain inspired by the Ilisos river, which once flowed through the neighborhood, stood a modernist iron snail, spouting water.

— Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2026