Synonyms of sticking around

sticking around 1 of 2

adjective

as in holding up

Related Words

• holding up
• keeping up
• staying
• holding on
• running on
• lasting
• enduring
• abiding
• persisting
• carrying through
• surviving
• residual
• continuing
• tarrying
• perduring
• biding
• prevailing
• lingering
• remaining
• leftover

Dissimilar Words

• dying (down)
• letting up
• waning
• winding up
• subsiding
• moderating
• ebbing
• abating
• ending
• dying
• passing
• concluding
• finishing
• closing
• stopping
• terminating
• ceasing
• lapsing
• leaving off
• quitting
• expiring
• discontinuing
• desisting

sticking around

2 of 2

verb

present participle of stick around

as in remaining

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time

we stuck around afterwards to help clean up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remaining
• hanging around
• waiting
• staying
• hanging on
• dwelling
• holding on
• abiding
• tarrying
• awaiting
• lingering
• loitering
• dawdling
• overstaying
• dallying
• outstaying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pulling out
• taking off
• cutting out
• walking out
• getting off
• going off
• buzzing (off)
• shoving (off)
• peeling off
• packing (up or off)
• pushing on
• clearing out
• pushing off
• bailing out
• moving
• leaving
• clearing off
• going
• running away
• getting out
• departing
• exiting
• bugging out
• bailing
• quitting
• flying
• piking (out or off)
• escaping
• fleeing
• skipping
• evacuating
• vamoosing
• absconding
• booking
• abandoning
• vacating
• deserting
• forsaking
• scramming
• decamping
• scatting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sticking around

Verb

After originally planning to stay on anyway, Alice has decided to seek other opportunities and would like a letter of recommendation after sticking around for Ted’s transition period. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026

Employees are still coffee badging, the practice of swiping into the office and sticking around long enough to have a cup of coffee before heading out to finish the workday at home or elsewhere. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

The internet has spent much of this year campaigning to make 2026 the new 2016, and several pieces from the old festival uniform are sticking around. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 28 July 2026

Getting younger, stylistically, has been crucial to The Daily Show sticking around. — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

Some of Cadillac Heights’ longtime residents aren’t sticking around to find out whether things will improve. — Jena Brooker, ProPublica, 6 July 2026

The under-the-radar member of the Florida Panthers’ core is sticking around. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

However, the luxury tax’s second apron would seem to be preventing that from happening, even if Robinson himself seems interested in sticking around. — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

That’s because the trough of low-pressure air in the upper atmosphere that brought us cooler temps will be sticking around through at least the start of July, with a potential for more of these mild temps to stick around just a bit longer. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026