dawdling

Meaning of dawdling

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. waste time; be slow.
    she mustn't dawdle—she had to make the call now

mid 17th century: related to dialect daddle, doddle ‘dally’.

Information about dawdling

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of dawdling is: dawdlings.
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Hyphenation of dawdling

dawdling

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • dawdling is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dawdling synonyms

Meaning dalliance:

dalliance, trifling

Meaning stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave:

linger

Meaning act or move slowly:

dally

Meaning move aimlessly or lazily:

idle

Meaning be late or slow; loiter:

delay

Meaning delay or postpone action; put off doing something:

procrastinate

Meaning (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine:

stall

Meaning like or covered with tar:

tarry

dawdling antonyms

Meaning move or act with great haste:

hurry

Anagrams of dawdling

waddling

Words that rhyme with dawdling

Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing

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