temporizing
Meaning of temporizing
verb
- 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.
- To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
- 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.
- To delay; to procrastinate.
- 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
Words that rhyme with temporizing
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