Synonyms of messing around

messing around

verb

present participle of mess around

1

as in fiddling (around)

to spend time in aimless activity

spent the vacation day just messing around

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fiddling (around)
• playing
• fooling around
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• pottering (around)
• monkeying (around)
• hanging about
• kicking around
• hanging (around or out)
• doodling
• trifling
• fribbling
• horsing around
• clowning (around)
• lounging
• idling
• diddling (with)
• loafing
• dawdling
• lolling
• tinkering
• dallying
• dillydallying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• setting (to)
• settling (down)
• buckling (down)
• knuckling down

2

as in flirting

to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun

a guy who goes to the health club mainly to mess around with the women

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flirting
• frivolling
• frivoling
• coquetting
• trifling
• toying
• playing (with)
• leading on
• putting on
• stringing along
• dallying
• wooing
• vamping
• kidding
• teasing
• courting
• mashing
• ribbing
• razzing
• fooling
• joshing
• manipulating

3

as in travelling

to come or be together as friends

if you continue to mess around with such narrow-minded boobs, you'll begin to think and act like them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• travelling
• traveling
• hanging (around or out)
• associating
• hooking up
• rubbing shoulders (with)
• rubbing elbows (with)
• running
• palling (around)
• connecting
• taking up with
• falling in with
• mixing
• joining
• collaborating
• being friends with
• keeping company (with)
• bonding
• relating
• mingling
• sorting
• getting along
• befriending
• getting on
• consorting
• fraternizing
• chumming
• hobnobbing
• companying
• cooperating
• consociating
• coupling
• linking
• grouping
• rallying
• tying
• attaching
• tieing
• allying
• clubbing
• socializing
• siding
• teaming
• wedding
• affiliating
• knotting
• interrelating
• leaguing
• colluding
• banding
• confederating
• conjoining
• ganging
• friending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• shunning
• splitting (up)
• snubbing
• breaking up
• alienating
• estranging
• dispersing
• splitting
• cold-shouldering
• disbanding
• severing
• divorcing
• dissociating
• sundering
• disjoining
• disuniting