What is another word for Dallying?
627 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈaliɪŋ], [ dˈaliɪŋ], [ d_ˈa_l_i__ɪ_ŋ]
Dallying is a term used to refer to someone wasting their time or being idle. There are several synonymous words that can be used to express the same meaning as dallying. Procrastinating means avoiding work that needs to be done, while loafing means being idle and wasting time. Frittering is a term used to express wasting time or resources in an aimless way, while idling means doing nothing productive. Dilly-dallying means wasting time or delaying the start of something important, while stalling is used to refer to the act of delaying something deliberately. Finally, lollygagging is another synonymous term for dallying, which means spending time aimlessly without purpose.
Synonyms for Dallying:
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adj.
• dilatory • endearing- Love-making ,
- Nuzzling ,
- Serenading ,
- alluring ,
- caressing ,
- charming ,
- cherishing ,
- endearing ,
- enticing ,
- flirtatious ,
- inviting ,
- romantic ,
- seductive ,
- snuggling ,
- spooning ,
- wooing .
- comehither ,
- more come on ,
- more come-on ,
- more comeon ,
- most come on ,
- most come-on ,
- most comeon ,
- most sportive ,
- spoonier ,
- spooniest ,
- sportive .
- asleep job ,
- asleep the job ,
- in attentive ,
- in different ,
- in-attentive ,
- in-different ,
- more procrastinating ,
- more slow moving ,
- more slow-moving ,
- more slowmoving ,
- more unenergetic ,
- more unindustrious ,
- more unpersevering ,
- more unready ,
- most procrastinating ,
- most slow moving ,
- most slow-moving ,
- most slowmoving ,
- most unenergetic ,
- most unindustrious ,
- most unpersevering ,
- most unready ,
- out it ,
- slow moving ,
- slowmoving ,
- snoozier ,
- snooziest ,
- somnolent ,
- un concerned ,
- un energetic ,
- un industrious ,
- un persevering ,
- un ready ,
- un-concerned ,
- un-energetic ,
- un-industrious ,
- un-persevering ,
- un-ready ,
- unindustrious ,
- unpersevering .
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n.
• frivolity -
v.
• endearing • procrastinating Other relevant words:
- abate ,
- act ,
- act as ,
- adorable ,
- adrift ,
- afloat ,
- aimless ,
- amatory ,
- ambitionless ,
- amorous ,
- antic ,
- arbitrariness ,
- aside ,
- at leisure ,
- athletics ,
- back ,
- backwards ,
- bagatelle ,
- beguilement ,
- beguiling ,
- behind ,
- belated ,
- bending ,
- bet ,
- bet on ,
- betting ,
- bid ,
- biz ,
- boast ,
- boring ,
- bring ,
- buffoonery ,
- bunk ,
- caper ,
- capriciousness ,
- card-playing ,
- cavort ,
- child's play ,
- childhood ,
- childishness ,
- clean ,
- clear sailing ,
- clink ,
- clowning ,
- coltish ,
- conjuration ,
- conjuring trick ,
- continuation ,
- coquettish ,
- courtship ,
- crawl ,
- craze ,
- creep ,
- crippled ,
- cult ,
- cunctation ,
- cushy ,
- dally ,
- dawdle ,
- dawdler ,
- deadening ,
- decelerate ,
- deception ,
- deflexion ,
- delinquent ,
- dense ,
- departure ,
- derelict ,
- devastating ,
- deviance ,
- diddle ,
- die away ,
- difference ,
- dilly-dally ,
- dim ,
- disport ,
- dissipated ,
- divagation ,
- divergence ,
- diversionary attack ,
- dizziness ,
- drag one's feet ,
- drag one's heels ,
- drama ,
- dramatic play ,
- dreamy ,
- drone ,
- drop-off ,
- dull ,
- dumb ,
- easy ,
- encounter ,
- excursion ,
- excursus ,
- faineant ,
- falderol ,
- fall back ,
- fall behind ,
- falling off ,
- falloff ,
- fast one ,
- feature ,
- feebleminded ,
- fiddle ,
- flightiness ,
- flim-flam ,
- flirt ,
- fluctuate ,
- fluff ,
- fob ,
- folderal ,
- footling ,
- fox ,
- free rein ,
- frill ,
- frippery ,
- frisk ,
- frisky ,
- frolic ,
- frolicky ,
- frolicsome ,
- furor ,
- furore ,
- gag ,
- gage ,
- gambling ,
- gambol ,
- gamey ,
- gaming ,
- gamy ,
- gaol ,
- gimcrack ,
- gimcrackery ,
- gimpy ,
- glee ,
- gleefulness ,
- goldbricking ,
- gritty ,
- half-witted ,
- halt ,
- halting ,
- hand job ,
- handful ,
- harlequinade ,
- hesitant ,
- hesitation ,
- hilarity ,
- ho-hum ,
- hokum ,
- hover ,
- idleness ,
- illusion ,
- immure ,
- impishness ,
- imprison ,
- in arrears ,
- inattentive ,
- incarcerate ,
- indolent ,
- inert ,
- insensible ,
- interest ,
- interim ,
- jab ,
- jabbing ,
- jacking off ,
- jail ,
- jailhouse ,
- jape ,
- jerkwater ,
- jocularity ,
- joke ,
- jug ,
- lagger ,
- lame ,
- languorous ,
- lark ,
- lark about ,
- late ,
- laugh ,
- legerdemain ,
- lengthening ,
- lengthiness ,
- let up ,
- lethargic ,
- light-mindedness ,
- lightheadedness ,
- lilliputian ,
- little ,
- loose ,
- looseness ,
- love ,
- love life ,
- lovely ,
- lovemaking ,
- magic ,
- magic trick ,
- magical ,
- make ,
- make for ,
- maneuver ,
- manoeuvre ,
- meaninglessness ,
- meantime ,
- meanwhile ,
- meet ,
- merriment ,
- mettlesome ,
- mire ,
- mirthfulness ,
- mischievousness ,
- misdirection ,
- morass ,
- mummery ,
- mutant ,
- mutation ,
- necking ,
- negligible ,
- niggling ,
- nonsensical ,
- nonsensicality ,
- obtuse ,
- one-horse ,
- oscillate ,
- otiose ,
- paltry ,
- parenthesis ,
- performing ,
- period of play ,
- perpetuation ,
- petting ,
- petty ,
- picayune ,
- piffling ,
- plain sailing ,
- planless ,
- play a joke on ,
- play a trick on ,
- play tricks ,
- playact ,
- playfulness ,
- playing period ,
- plot ,
- poke ,
- pokey ,
- prank ,
- procrastinate ,
- prolongation ,
- puckishness ,
- pull a fast one on ,
- punt ,
- pursuit ,
- put away ,
- put behind bars ,
- put-on ,
- quagmire ,
- quelling ,
- quixotic ,
- rage ,
- ready and waiting ,
- rearward ,
- rearwards ,
- recreate ,
- refraction ,
- refreshment ,
- relax ,
- remand ,
- represent ,
- retard ,
- retardation ,
- roleplay ,
- rollick ,
- rollicking ,
- romanticist ,
- romanticistic ,
- romp ,
- roundabout way ,
- rudderless ,
- run ,
- run around ,
- secret plan ,
- senseless ,
- sexual love ,
- shamble ,
- shambling ,
- shillyshally ,
- shimmer ,
- shirking ,
- shuffle ,
- silliness ,
- skylark ,
- slack off ,
- slack up ,
- slack water ,
- slacken ,
- slacking ,
- slackness ,
- slake ,
- slammer ,
- slow down ,
- slow up ,
- slow-witted ,
- slowdown ,
- slowgoing ,
- slowly ,
- slumberous ,
- slumbery ,
- slumbrous ,
- slump ,
- smooching ,
- soft ,
- soggy ,
- soldiering ,
- sorcerous ,
- spiel ,
- spirited ,
- sportsman ,
- sportsmanlike ,
- sportswoman ,
- sporty ,
- spunky ,
- squeeze ,
- stake ,
- stall ,
- stave ,
- stifling ,
- suit ,
- sulky ,
- summercater ,
- suppression ,
- swing ,
- swinging ,
- swordplay ,
- take on ,
- talk ,
- tardily ,
- tedious ,
- tempting ,
- thrust ,
- thrusting ,
- tiresome ,
- torpid ,
- toy ,
- trailer ,
- trifle ,
- trivial ,
- trumpery ,
- turn ,
- undirected ,
- vacillant ,
- variation ,
- vertigo ,
- vibrate ,
- wager ,
- wait ,
- wank ,
- warp ,
- waver ,
- wavering ,
- wearisome ,
- whimsey ,
- whimsy ,
- whoremaster ,
- whoremonger ,
- wild-eyed ,
- witching ,
- wizard ,
- wizardly ,
- work ,
- work-shy ,
- wreak .
- Braying ,
- Comminuting ,
- Coquetting ,
- Crunching ,
- Dabbling ,
- Deferring ,
- Delaying ,
- Divertissement ,
- Dolce Far Niente ,
- Encountering ,
- Fooling ,
- Lazing ,
- Loitering ,
- Mashing ,
- Pottering ,
- Procrastinatory ,
- Puttering ,
- Recreating ,
- Snail-paced ,
- Soliciting ,
- Squashing ,
- Squelching ,
- Tarrying ,
- Tinkering ,
- Vamping ,
- Wagering ,
- Wantoning ,
- acting ,
- amusement ,
- backward ,
- butterflying ,
- coquetry ,
- crawling ,
- creeping ,
- crushing ,
- dalliance ,
- deflection ,
- detour ,
- deviation ,
- diddling ,
- digression ,
- dilatoriness ,
- dilatory ,
- dillydally ,
- dillydallying ,
- distraction ,
- diversion ,
- dragging ,
- easy going ,
- easygoing ,
- entertainment ,
- fad ,
- fiddling ,
- flippancy ,
- flirtation ,
- flirty ,
- fooling around ,
- foot-dragging ,
- frivolity ,
- frivolousness ,
- fun ,
- game ,
- giddiness ,
- goofing off ,
- idling ,
- jerking off ,
- kidding around ,
- lackadaisical ,
- lag ,
- laggard ,
- lagging ,
- languid ,
- lax ,
- lazy ,
- leisurely ,
- levity ,
- loafing ,
- lolling ,
- lollygagging ,
- lounging ,
- messing around ,
- mirth ,
- monkeying ,
- monkeying around ,
- moving ,
- pastime ,
- philandering ,
- piddling ,
- play ,
- playacting ,
- playing ,
- playing around ,
- poking ,
- poky ,
- procrastination ,
- protraction ,
- recreation ,
- remiss ,
- representing ,
- roleplaying ,
- shiftless ,
- shilly-shallying ,
- shuffling ,
- slack ,
- slothful ,
- slow ,
- sluggish ,
- smattering ,
- snaillike ,
- spieling ,
- sport ,
- sporting ,
- squeezing ,
- talking ,
- tardy ,
- tarriance ,
- toying ,
- trick ,
- trifling ,
- unhurried ,
- vacillate ,
- vacillation ,
- waiting ,
- womanising ,
- womanizing .
How to use "Dallying" in context?
Dallying is a euphemism for engaging in sexual activity with someone other than one's spouse. It can also refer to a casual relationship that is not considered to be dating. Dallying is considered more acceptable than adultery because it does not involve an extra-marital relationship.
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