dawdling
Meaning of dawdling
verb, gerund or present participle
- 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:
Meaning stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave:
Meaning act or move slowly:
Meaning move aimlessly or lazily:
Meaning be late or slow; loiter:
Meaning delay or postpone action; put off doing something:
Meaning (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine:
Meaning like or covered with tar:
dawdling antonyms
Meaning move or act with great haste:
Anagrams of dawdling
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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