What are the opposite words for dally?
Dally means to waste time, procrastinate or delay, and some antonyms for it include expedite, hurry, hasten, accelerate, advance, and quicken. If you want to finish a task efficiently and on time, then it's essential not to dally but to expedite your work. Procrastination can harm your productivity, but if you accelerate your work, it can help improve your productivity. Advancing also helps keep you on top of your game, ensuring that you don't fall behind schedule or miss deadlines. Hurrying and hastening your work can enable you to complete it quickly and efficiently, which leaves you with plenty of free time to relax or tackle other tasks.
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- move
- run
- drive
- festinate
- scram
- bustle
- course
- flee
- flurry
- fly
- hurry
- hustle
- race
- rush
- move around quickly, busily
- flow; run
- dawdle, delay
- skedaddle
- move or urge on
- agitate, confuse
- run or pass swiftly
- hightail
- act, move speedily
- hurry; work hurriedly
- be in motion, put in motion
- run, speed in competition
- move fast on foot
- leave quickly
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
move
- get away,
- get going,
- going away,
- offload,
- getting away,
- gets away,
- got away,
- gotten away,
- head for,
- skip out,
- headed for,
- de part,
- de parted,
- de parting,
- de parts,
- de-part,
- de-parted,
- de-parting,
- de-parts,
- dis locate,
- dis located,
- dis locates,
- dis locating,
- dis-locate,
- dis-located,
- dis-locates,
- dis-locating,
- gat away,
- gat going,
- gets going,
- getting going,
- goes away,
- got going,
- gotten going,
- heading for,
- heads for,
- locomoted,
- locomotes,
- locomoting,
- off load,
- off loaded,
- off loads,
- off-loaded,
- off-loading,
- off-loads,
- offloaded,
- offloads,
- re locate,
- re located,
- re locates,
- re locating,
- re move,
- re moved,
- re moving,
- re-locate,
- re-located,
- re-locates,
- re-locating,
- re-move,
- re-moves,
- re-moving,
- skipped out,
- skipping out,
- skips out,
- trans ported,
- trans pose,
- trans posed,
- trans-pose,
- trans-posing,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
-
run
- hightail,
- leg it,
- take flight,
- shag,
- cut and run,
- cut run,
- cuts and run,
- cuts run,
- cutting and run,
- cutting run,
- de camp,
- de camped,
- de camping,
- de camps,
- de-camp,
- de-camped,
- de-camping,
- de-camps,
- dog it,
- dogged it,
- dogging it,
- dogs it,
- legged it,
- legging it,
- legs it,
- made a break,
- made break,
- make a break,
- make break,
- makes a break,
- making a break,
- making break,
- shagging,
- shags,
- takes flight,
- taking flight,
- tare out,
- tears out,
- tore out,
- torn out.
-
drive
- act upon,
- lean on,
- railroading,
- spirit up,
- steamroll,
- work on,
- Shepherded,
- Shepherding,
- gooses,
- steamrolls,
- goosing,
- railroaded,
- put to,
- put up to,
- over-burden,
- over-burdening,
- over-burdened,
- worked on,
- over-wrought,
- act up on,
- acted up on,
- acted upon,
- acting up on,
- acting upon,
- acts up on,
- acts upon,
- goosed,
- in duce,
- in duces,
- in spire,
- in spired,
- in spires,
- in spiring,
- in-duce,
- in-duces,
- in-spire,
- in-spired,
- in-spires,
- in-spiring,
- leaned on,
- leaning on,
- leans on,
- leant on,
- over burden,
- over burdened,
- over burdening,
- over burdens,
- over worked,
- over working,
- over works,
- over-worked,
- over-works,
- puts to,
- puts up to,
- putting to,
- putting up to,
- spirited up,
- spiriting up,
- spirits up,
- steamrolled,
- steamrolling,
- working on,
- works on,
- wrought on.
- festinate
-
scram
- get lost,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- gat lost,
- gets lost,
- getting lost,
- got lost,
- gotten lost,
- made oneself scarce,
- made scarce,
- make oneself scarce,
- make scarce,
- makes oneself scarce,
- makes scarce,
- making oneself scarce,
- making scarce.
- bustle
- course
- flee
-
flurry
- be wilder,
- be wildered,
- be wildering,
- be wilders,
- be-wilder,
- be-wildered,
- be-wildering,
- be-wilders,
- dis compose,
- dis composed,
- dis composes,
- dis composing,
- dis concert,
- dis concerted,
- dis concerting,
- dis concerts,
- dis quiet,
- dis quieted,
- dis quieting,
- dis quiets,
- dis tract,
- dis tracts,
- dis-compose,
- dis-composed,
- dis-composes,
- dis-composing,
- dis-concert,
- dis-concerted,
- dis-concerting,
- dis-concerts,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quieted,
- dis-quieting,
- dis-quiets,
- dis-tract,
- dis-tracts,
- ex cite,
- ex cited,
- ex cites,
- ex citing,
- ex-cite,
- ex-cited,
- ex-cites,
- un hinge,
- un hinged,
- un hinges,
- un hinging,
- un settle,
- un settled,
- un settles,
- un settling,
- un-hinge,
- un-hinged,
- un-hinges,
- un-hinging,
- un-settle,
- un-settled,
- un-settling,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting.
-
fly
- barreled,
- barrelled,
- slip away,
- Barreling,
- Barrelling,
- go like the wind,
- go like wind,
- goes like the wind,
- goes like wind,
- going like the wind,
- going like wind,
- ran its course,
- run its course,
- running its course,
- runs its course,
- slipped away,
- slips away,
- slipt away,
- went like the wind,
- went like wind.
-
hurry
- smoking,
- speed up,
- speeded up,
- whish,
- Fleeted,
- Hasted,
- Hasting,
- Hurries,
- Sallied,
- Sallying,
- whishes,
- bulleted,
- make time,
- step on it,
- make haste,
- get a move on,
- shake a leg,
- making time,
- go like lightning,
- make tracks,
- be quick,
- Make short work of,
- am quick,
- are quick,
- art quick,
- beelined,
- beelining,
- being quick,
- bulleting,
- gat a move on,
- gat move on,
- get move on,
- gets a move on,
- gets move on,
- getting a move on,
- goes like lightning,
- going like lightning,
- got a move on,
- got move on,
- gotten a move on,
- hurried up,
- hurries up,
- hurry up,
- hurrying up,
- is quick,
- lose no time,
- loses no time,
- losing no time,
- lost no time,
- made haste,
- made short work of,
- made time,
- made tracks,
- makes haste,
- makes short work of,
- makes time,
- makes tracks,
- making haste,
- making short work of,
- making tracks,
- shake leg,
- shakes a leg,
- shakes leg,
- shaking a leg,
- shaking leg,
- shook a leg,
- sped up,
- speeding up,
- speeds up,
- step gas,
- step it,
- step on gas,
- stepped gas,
- stepped it,
- stepped on gas,
- stepped on it,
- stepping gas,
- stepping it,
- stepping on gas,
- stepping on it,
- steps gas,
- steps it,
- steps on gas,
- steps on it,
- turn on steam,
- turn steam,
- turned on steam,
- turned steam,
- turning on steam,
- turning steam,
- turns on steam,
- turns steam,
- was quick,
- wast quick,
- went like lightning,
- were quick,
- wert quick,
- whished,
- whishing.
-
hustle
- apply oneself,
- am conscientious,
- applied oneself,
- applies oneself,
- applying oneself,
- are conscientious,
- art conscientious,
- be conscientious,
- being conscientious,
- is conscientious,
- use elbow grease,
- used elbow grease,
- uses elbow grease,
- using elbow grease,
- was conscientious,
- wast conscientious,
- were conscientious,
- wert conscientious.
- race
- rush
- move around quickly, busily
- flow; run
- dawdle, delay
- skedaddle
- move or urge on
- agitate, confuse
-
run or pass swiftly
- fly.
- hightail
- act, move speedily
- hurry; work hurriedly
-
be in motion, put in motion
- move.
-
run, speed in competition
- race.
-
move fast on foot
- run.
- leave quickly
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Other relevant words
- accelerate,
- barrel,
- bowl,
- breeze,
- catch up,
- course,
- dart,
- dash,
- drudge,
- exert,
- grind,
- grub,
- hotfoot,
- hump,
- hurry,
- hustle,
- jog,
- labor,
- moil,
- outpace,
- outrun,
- outstrip,
- overtake,
- peg,
- put out,
- quicken,
- race,
- rip,
- run,
- rush,
- scramble,
- scud,
- speed,
- stampede,
- strain,
- struggle,
- sweat,
- tear,
- toil,
- travail,
- trot,
- whirl,
- whisk,
- whiz,
- work,
- zip.
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Other antonyms
- plod.
Antonym of the day
doth to a turn
- Antonyms:
- abstain, avoid, bear.
