dragging

Speech parts

1. dragging - Noun

2. dragging - Adjective

3. dragging - Verb

Derived from drag

5. dragging - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Drag

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pulling trailing boring tedious lagging sluggish lingering delaying towing lagan pokey long lento slow draw
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Antonyms

dizzy advantage FAST fleet flying ready
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Phrases with the word

dragging one's feet dragging one's heels fish by dragging dragging into the twenty-first century dragging piece dragging out

Examples

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benét

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death. H. G. Wells

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me. Stephenie Meyer

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow! Yuri Gagarin

The nuts from a palm tree don't fall without dragging a few leaves with it. African Congo Proverb

Close letter words and terms

dragger dragger-down dragginess dragging into the twenty-first century dragging one's feet dragging one's heels