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Adjective
Moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed
Irresolute and hesitant
Noun
The action of delaying or moving at a slow pace
The state of being irresolute
The act of retarding or delaying
Habitual indisposition to action or motion
Dawdling
Resting on your oars
Verb
Present participle for to move or act slowly
Present participle for to move or walk lackadaisically
Present participle for to spend time doing nothing
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▲
Adjective
▲
Moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed
crawling
creeping
dallying
dilatory
dillydallying
dragging
laggard
lagging
languid
leisurely
pokey
poking
poky
slow
sluggish
snaillike
snail-paced
tardy
unhurried
casual
deliberate
measured
easy
slow-moving
plodding
ponderous
leaden
loitering
moderate
gentle
relaxed
sedate
slow-going
steady
comfortable
labored
US
laboured
UK
lazy
sluggardly
tortoise-like
undemanding
unrushed
leaden-footed
lethargic
listless
snail-like
behindhand
idle
lackadaisical
laggy
late
lollygagging
slothful
torpid
apathetic
delaying
dreamy
drowsy
imperceptible
indolent
inert
passive
phlegmatic
postponing
procrastinating
tortoiselike
remiss
supine
easy-going
calm
leisured
slow-paced
unhasty
careful
cautious
easygoing
gradual
laid-back
lingering
methodical
nonchalant
painstaking
patient
precise
slow and steady
thorough
boring
dull
monotonous
tedious
tiresome
humdrum
wearisome
drawn-out
lengthy
long
mind-numbing
overlong
prolonged
protracted
uninteresting
going slowly
arrested
behind
checked
delayed
dense
feeble-minded
imbecile
moronic
stupid
subnormal
underdeveloped
underprivileged
undeveloped
slack
backward
lax
time-wasting
unpunctual
putting off
tarrying
flagging
moratory
neglectful
negligent
problem
restful
effortless
languorous
free
relaxing
slackened
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
hobbling
inching
quailing
shambling
shuffling
skulking
slinking
slithering
sneaking
squirming
worming
wriggling
writhing
barely moving
moving slowly
on all fours
on hands and knees
chilled
unexciting
slow-footed
disinclined
heavy
inactive
quiet
reluctant
sleepy
stagnant
stalling
deferring
dilly-dallying
shelving
tabling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
Fabian
trailing
falling behind
more ❯
“The
dawdling
pace of the movie was really making us restless.”
Adjective
▲
Irresolute and hesitant
hesitating
delaying
wavering
vacillant
afraid
averse
backward
diffident
disinclined
doubtful
doubting
faltering
half-hearted
halting
hanging back
indecisive
irresolute
lacking confidence
lazy
loath
pendulous
reluctant
shilly-shally
shy
sceptical
UK
skeptical
US
slow
tentative
timid
uneager
unpredictable
unsure
unwilling
vacillating
vacillatory
hesitant
uncertain
undecided
ambivalent
dubious
nervous
dithering
stalling
havering
iffy
in doubt
oscillating
shilly-shallying
cunctatory
dilly-dallying
having misgivings
having qualms
cautious
humming and hawing
in a dilemma
in a quandary
in two minds
blowing hot and cold
on the horns of a dilemma
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of delaying or moving at a slow pace
delaying
dilly-dallying
lingering
loitering
shilly-shallying
stalling
tarrying
lagging behind
dragging your feet
delay
hesitation
procrastination
wavering
dallying
dithering
pausing
vacillation
waiting
cunctation
deferment
faltering
hesitance
hesitancy
postponement
slowness
dilatoriness
slackness
adjournment
breather
demurral
indecision
recess
reprieve
respite
rest
temporization
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
humming and hawing
delaying tactics
hanging back
hemming and hawing
kicking the can down the road
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state of being irresolute
indecisiveness
hesitation
inconclusiveness
indefiniteness
indeterminacy
uncertainty
unclearness
vagueness
woolliness
delay
demurral
doubt
dubiety
equivocation
faltering
fluctuation
hesitancy
indecision
indisposition
irresoluteness
irresolution
misgiving
mistrust
oscillation
pause
procrastination
qualm
reluctance
scruple
scepticism
UK
skepticism
US
timidity
timidness
unwillingness
vacillation
wavering
averseness
delaying
fumbling
hemming and hawing
shilly-shally
stammering
stumbling
stuttering
tentativeness
to-and-fro
ambivalence
dithering
doubtfulness
unsureness
shilly-shallying
teetering
waiting
dilly-dallying
fence-sitting
havering
hesitance
stalling
swithering
temporization
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
wabbling
wobbling
changeableness
cunctation
faint-heartedness
half-heartedness
hanging back
incertitude
lack of resolution
second thoughts
shillyshallying
weakness
humming and hawing
blowing hot and cold
sitting on the fence
pausing
dubiousness
nervousness
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act of retarding or delaying
retardation
braking
deceleration
downshift
letup
slowdown
adjournment
bind
check
cunctation
delay
demurral
detainment
detention
discontinuation
downtime
filibuster
hangup
hindrance
holding
holdup
hold-up
impedance
impediment
interval
jam
lag
lingering
logjam
loitering
moratorium
obstacle
obstruction
postponement
problem
procrastination
prorogation
remission
reprieve
retardment
setback
showstopper
stall
stay
stop
stoppage
surcease
suspension
tarrying
tie-up
wait
cooling-off period
holding pattern
putting off
Noun
▲
Habitual indisposition to action or motion
inertness
dormancy
idleness
inaction
inactivity
nonaction
quiescence
dilly-dallying
droning
hibernation
indolence
inertia
inoperativeness
joblessness
laze
lazing
leisure
lethargy
loafing
loitering
otiosity
pottering
shiftlessness
sloth
slothfulness
slouch
slowness
sluggishness
stagnation
stupor
time-wasting
torpidity
torpor
trifling
truancy
unemployment
vegetating
goof-off time
own sweet time
time to burn
time to kill
time on one's hands
laziness
immobility
vegetation
desuetude
disuse
dullness
heaviness
lassitude
lifelessness
stagnancy
dilatoriness
doziness
listlessness
passivity
quietness
sedentariness
sleepiness
dolce far niente
languor
negligence
remissness
slackness
hebetude
laxity
skiving
apathy
more ❯
Noun
▲
Dawdling
dalliance
dabbling
playing
toying
trifling
delay
delaying
dilly-dallying
frittering
frivoling
idling
loafing
loitering
poking
procrastinating
procrastination
puttering
Noun
▲
Resting on your oars
idling
drifting
loafing
resting
pottering
taking it easy
resting on your oars
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or act slowly
dallying
lingering
idling
delaying
lagging
procrastinating
tarrying
dilly-dallying
loitering
wasting time
crawling
creeping
diddling
dillydallying
dragging
lallygagging
loafing
lollygagging
moping
poking
pottering
shilly-shallying
stalling
trailing
killing time
diddle-daddling
hanging about
hanging fire
marking time
plodding
pottering about
pottering around
sauntering
staying
toddling
trifling
waiting
frittering time away
pottering round
bumming around
fooling around
frittering away
hanging around
hanging out
putting off
scrounging around
shlepping along
sitting around
taking your time
warming a chair
dragging your feet
getting no place fast
sitting on one's butt
“Don't
dawdle
- questions must reach us by next Wednesday.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or walk lackadaisically
ambling
loitering
strolling
moseying
pootling
tootling
bimbling
going slowly
mooching
puttering
swanning
walking slowly
falling behind
holding back
lagging behind
loitering along
trailing behind
“It was quite funny coming back - Clare, Sandra and I decided to
dawdle
back to the History Room, so went along the Middle Corridor, and stood there waving to people on the Art Room balcony.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to spend time doing nothing
bumming
chilling
chillin
dallying
dillydallying
droning
footling
idling
lazing
lazying
loafing
lolling
lounging
goofing off
hacking around
hanging about
kicking around
kicking back
vegging out
hanging around
hanging out
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