dawdling

Speech parts

1. dawdling - Noun

2. dawdling - Verb

Meaning

of Dawdle

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

trifling dalliance dally pokey slow delay waiting deliberate trailing idle stall lag lazy dragging hesitation
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Antonyms

swift dizzy engineering belief FAST hot
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Hypernyms

delay holdup

Phrases with the word

dawdling person

Anagrams

waddling

Examples

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered. Ralph Vaughan Williams

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland

[I] begged for crumbs and morsels door to door...Plodding and dawdling around lanes. Tulsidas

Close letter words and terms

dawdle dawdler dawdlesome dawdling person dawdlingly Dawdon