temporizing

Meaning of temporizing

verb
  1. To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
  2. To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
  3. To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
  4. To delay; to procrastinate.
  5. To comply; to agree.

noun

The act of one who temporizes, or acts evasively.

Information about temporizing

  • The plural form of temporizing is: temporizings.
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Hyphenation of temporizing

tem-po-riz-ing

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • temporizing is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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