sit around

Verb

Meaning

be around, often idly or without specific purpose

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sit dally rest loaf piddle drift idle relax lounge bum recline loiter take it easy laze lie down
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Antonyms

achieve do buckle down do it go around act upon
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Hypernyms

be

Examples

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. Gertrude Stein

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. George Gershwin

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts. Jake Gyllenhaal

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting. Bob Woodward

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset? Fritz Leiber

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. Paulo Coelho

Close letter words and terms

Sisyrinchium septentrionale sit sit about sit astride sit at sit at home