Synonyms of procrastinates

procrastinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of procrastinate

as in delays

to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.

He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.

He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work.

Related Words

• delays
• stalls
• crawls
• drags
• lingers
• plays
• dawdles
• shuffles
• temporizes
• loiters
• mopes
• lags
• staggers
• pokes
• diddles
• tarries
• dallies
• filibusters
• saunters
• dillydallies
• creeps
• strolls
• lollygags
• idles
• putters (around)
• ambles
• trifles
• potters (around)
• loafs
• fiddles (around)
• fools around
• lolls
• monkeys (around)
• hangs (around or out)
• shilly-shallies
• messes around
• decelerates
• inches
• lounges
• lumbers
• plods
• slows (down or up)
• eases

Dissimilar Words

• scrambles
• hustles
• hurtles
• bowls
• darts
• runs
• jogs
• trots
• stampedes
• breezes
• sprints
• gallops
• accelerates
• humps
• quickens
• speeds (up)
• overtakes
• outruns
• outstrips
• rushes
• hurries
• hastens
• scurries
• outpaces
• courses
• races
• tears
• barrels
• flies
• catches up
• speeds
• careers
• whirls
• scoots
• rips
• whisks
• whizzes
• dashes
• zips
• bolts
• rockets
• fast-forwards
• scuds
• hotfoots (it)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of procrastinates

Basically, the company procrastinates, to the temporary benefit of the speed-obsessives among us. — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2026