What is another word for Delaying?
Pronunciation:
[ dɪlˈe͡ɪɪŋ], [ dɪlˈeɪɪŋ], [ d_ɪ_l_ˈeɪ_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for Delaying:
- dilatory (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- hindering (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-footed (adjective)
- slow-going (adjective)
- slow-paced (adjective)
- dalliance (noun)
- hesitation (noun)
- indecisiveness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- hesitating (verb)
- hindering (verb)
- interrupting (verb)
- slowing (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Delaying:
adj.
• dilatory (adjective) • hesitant (adjective)- half hearted,
- dis-inclined,
- un-sure,
- more faltering,
- dis inclined,
- more uneager,
- un-predictable,
- more dawdling,
- un predictable,
- in-decisive,
- un sure,
- most dawdling,
- in decisive,
- doubting,
- un-eager,
- un-willing,
- Half-hearted,
- un willing,
- most uneager,
- un eager,
- most faltering.
- constraining,
- crippling,
- Complicating,
- hindering,
- frustrating,
- Clogging,
- Handicapping,
- baffling,
- restricting,
- Entangling,
- Snagging,
- thwarting,
- Entrapping,
- choking,
- Restraining,
- burdensome,
- Damming,
- impeding,
- bottleneck,
- constipating,
- Obstructing,
- Snarling,
- Crimping,
- Encumbering,
- Fouling,
- Detaining,
- Cramping,
- inhibiting,
- congesting,
- blocking,
- Tangling,
- Resisting,
- Deterring.
n.
• dalliance (noun)- de-lay,
- dabblings,
- putterings,
- loiterings,
- idlings,
- triflings,
- de laying,
- de lay,
- dillydallyings,
- de-lays,
- fritterings,
- de lays,
- delayings,
- loafings,
- dilly-dallyings,
- procrastinatings,
- de-laying,
- frivolings,
- toyings,
- dilly dallyings.
- in decision,
- dawdlings,
- in disposition,
- mis trust,
- un willingness,
- in-dispositions,
- in-decision,
- in-decisions,
- in-disposition,
- hemming hawings,
- hemming hawing,
- mis giving,
- demurrals,
- un-willingnesses,
- mis trusts,
- mis-giving,
- un-willingness,
- in decisions,
- un willingnesses,
- hemming and hawings,
- falterings,
- mis-trust,
- in dispositions.
- fumbling,
- procrastination,
- playings,
- hesitation,
- indecisiveness,
- pokings,
- stumbling,
- to-and-fro,
- idling,
- wait,
- shillyshally,
- stumblings,
- frivoling,
- dalliance,
- scruple,
- demurral,
- tentativeness,
- fumblings,
- waverings,
- irresolution,
- hesitancy,
- trifling,
- procrastinations,
- timidness,
- event,
- irresoluteness,
- hemming and hawing.
v.
• hesitating (verb) • hindering (verb) • interrupting (verb) • slowing (verb)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- paltry,
- loosen up,
- sweep over,
- patch up,
- ominous,
- at leisure,
- denotation,
- autumn,
- stick around,
- constriction,
- communicable,
- retardent,
- dangling,
- obstructer,
- choke up,
- grind,
- come down,
- cushy,
- plodder,
- annex,
- subnormality,
- cliff,
- taxing,
- intermit,
- plunge,
- doubtfulness,
- cheque,
- jibe,
- slowness,
- make,
- chronic,
- endure,
- embarrass,
- abatement,
- extend,
- dip,
- censor,
- knotty,
- passive,
- quagmire,
- souse,
- drop dead,
- embrace,
- controller,
- bread and butter,
- interdict,
- hold over,
- declination,
- check into,
- put over,
- breeding,
- grading,
- marker,
- live on,
- feebleminded,
- blockade,
- nail down,
- appease,
- crack,
- natural covering,
- block up,
- go under,
- see,
- jam,
- barroom,
- overleap,
- dreamy,
- throw,
- await,
- fascinating,
- dilly-dally,
- creep,
- ascendency,
- lengthiness,
- detain,
- driblet,
- closure,
- ostracize,
- faineant,
- flow,
- treatment,
- jug,
- soft,
- covering,
- legal profession,
- find out,
- last out,
- expend,
- conk,
- barricade,
- issue,
- breakage,
- kibosh,
- reluctance,
- dilatoriness,
- like,
- condition,
- inattentive,
- manipulate,
- languorous,
- stay on,
- limiting,
- peachy,
- developmentally challenged,
- mental retardation,
- taking hold,
- placating,
- flood,
- static,
- underwrite,
- neglect,
- drudgery,
- make up,
- bungling,
- blackball,
- prehensile,
- imbrue,
- deferral,
- left,
- miss,
- spying,
- stave,
- drop down,
- obstacle,
- locate,
- backwardness,
- determinant,
- latent period,
- reaction time,
- discontinuance,
- breed,
- hit it up,
- effectiveness,
- great,
- interim,
- enshroud,
- electric resistance,
- cut down,
- get back,
- dour,
- nonoperational,
- problematical,
- minify,
- top,
- lame,
- absorbing,
- temporary removal,
- immobilise,
- capability,
- clumsy,
- idleness,
- fell,
- slack off,
- seizing,
- inlet,
- corking,
- taking into custody,
- extenuation,
- timidity,
- durable,
- damp,
- condescend,
- send away,
- falloff,
- sceptical,
- jab,
- put away,
- croak,
- break,
- reconcile,
- throw away,
- inebriate,
- onerous,
- capableness,
- espial,
- stand up,
- easy,
- impedimenta,
- eat up,
- legal community,
- pop off,
- hinder,
- die,
- muffle,
- check-out procedure,
- problematic,
- deadening,
- surcharge,
- match,
- relief,
- correspond,
- pulley,
- pearl,
- exit,
- enjoinment,
- dawdle,
- transmissible,
- intoxicate,
- extension service,
- shunning,
- incapacitating,
- gibe,
- strike down,
- set down,
- hold back,
- comprehend,
- flood out,
- ensconce,
- choke coil,
- conciliate,
- choking coil,
- pokey,
- declivity,
- tiresome,
- drooping,
- quell,
- bang-up,
- gloaming,
- dandy,
- look into,
- livelihood,
- cylinder block,
- say-so,
- agape,
- curb bit,
- pick up,
- mentally retarded,
- hold out,
- recession,
- dim,
- backwards,
- deceleration,
- neaten,
- toponym,
- neat,
- tardily,
- stifle,
- covert,
- ascendancy,
- tabu,
- pass,
- prohibition era,
- impede,
- work-shy,
- determine,
- curtail,
- go over,
- languid,
- evenfall,
- banish,
- jail,
- buy the farm,
- belated,
- wing,
- ostracise,
- drag one's feet,
- meantime,
- deteriorate,
- close,
- dunk,
- expectation,
- draw a blank,
- numb,
- demurrer,
- grim,
- swell,
- derelict,
- put behind bars,
- fit,
- covetous,
- strike,
- bide,
- get,
- dampen,
- handicap,
- in arrears,
- threatening,
- slowdown,
- slackness,
- ho-hum,
- block off,
- balky,
- submerse,
- ascendence,
- shroud,
- skeptical,
- life,
- simpleness,
- resistivity,
- live,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- cube,
- incarcerate,
- unwind,
- scrag,
- soaking,
- pass over,
- settee,
- hang,
- expire,
- shelve,
- coquetry,
- deign,
- imprison,
- stoppage,
- smashing,
- mark off,
- simplicity,
- control condition,
- timorousness,
- observance,
- rob,
- check out,
- flatten,
- negligible,
- fleece,
- put down,
- get across,
- pass away,
- interference,
- slowcoach,
- freeze,
- proscribed,
- groovy,
- agree,
- drop off,
- hold,
- not bad,
- deterrent,
- duck,
- slake,
- train,
- kerb,
- pawn,
- obtuse,
- moderate,
- long-lasting,
- forbidden,
- detection,
- fillet,
- strangle,
- incubate,
- determinative,
- put off,
- half-witted,
- blank out,
- relegate,
- prolonged,
- give-up the ghost,
- shake off,
- go down,
- backward and forward,
- belittle,
- compensate,
- stunning,
- apprehend,
- meanwhile,
- take root,
- tone down,
- look,
- track,
- resistance,
- wearisome,
- hatch,
- sinister,
- surrender,
- ascertain,
- drawn-out,
- cover version,
- light,
- inactiveness,
- plod,
- whelm,
- dodging,
- insure,
- address,
- protraction,
- hiatus,
- flirtation,
- lug,
- overcompensate,
- stripe,
- ascendance,
- spotting,
- frustrative,
- nightfall,
- tick,
- spill,
- preparation,
- suspension system,
- left over,
- encouraging,
- niche,
- mark,
- operate,
- foul,
- placatory,
- loafing,
- placative,
- pin,
- wavering,
- browning automatic rifle,
- devolve,
- elongation,
- command,
- donkeywork,
- muffled,
- return,
- minacious,
- crippled,
- ride out,
- dusk,
- contagious,
- pulley-block,
- pulley block,
- root,
- authorisation,
- postpone,
- accrue,
- obstruct,
- choke off,
- check over,
- response time,
- load-bearing,
- check up on,
- constraint,
- prolongation,
- stay put,
- defy,
- stifling,
- collar,
- sustain,
- torpid,
- greedy,
- see to it,
- hide,
- dubiety,
- tarriance,
- expectancy,
- shine,
- miscarriage,
- cover song,
- spend,
- tedious,
- send packing,
- steep,
- omit,
- clog,
- slothful,
- fret,
- cease and desist order,
- hold water,
- report,
- confirmation,
- outride,
- fall behind,
- cast out,
- late,
- procrastinate,
- tidy,
- phlegmatical,
- soak up,
- drone,
- falling off,
- hitch,
- slacken,
- overlay,
- swim,
- dismiss,
- abide,
- incertitude,
- case,
- pall,
- unexpended,
- overtake,
- observation,
- swing,
- motionless,
- out,
- back,
- potential,
- thrusting,
- cross,
- prorogue,
- sop,
- shambling,
- square up,
- unload,
- measure,
- check off,
- animation,
- dwindle away,
- keep in line,
- finalise,
- outcome,
- slowly,
- question,
- remit,
- jerkwater,
- stall,
- relax,
- roll out,
- engross,
- streak,
- amex,
- last,
- imbue,
- knock back,
- contain,
- otiose,
- ginmill,
- overmaster,
- defer,
- slow-witted,
- result,
- cut back,
- plow,
- rafter,
- twilight,
- deluge,
- strangulation,
- shuffle,
- decompress,
- moderation,
- annealing,
- put out,
- city block,
- leftover,
- gaol,
- overlook,
- hold in,
- blanket,
- cunctation,
- handle,
- slap-up,
- pretermit,
- snuff it,
- tab,
- swallow up,
- holdup,
- waitress,
- support,
- banishment,
- dubiousness,
- resist,
- adjudicate,
- derive,
- manipulation,
- game,
- disabling,
- blunt,
- tick off,
- precipitate,
- immobilize,
- resolve,
- screening,
- encumbrance,
- contractable,
- stuff,
- grooming,
- square off,
- bank check,
- aliveness,
- suppression,
- bridle,
- apprehension,
- coordinated,
- cash in one's chips,
- chip,
- flirting,
- traverse,
- shed,
- qualm,
- catch,
- prediction,
- deal,
- trailer,
- gazump,
- throttle,
- mental block,
- university extension,
- fracture,
- permanent,
- thudding,
- file name extension,
- upshot,
- time out,
- mire,
- discipline,
- cop,
- elusive,
- decelerate,
- rearward,
- duplicate,
- mastery,
- hock,
- back up,
- continue,
- knock off,
- checkout,
- toying,
- decide,
- jailhouse,
- quiescence,
- slack up,
- saloon,
- old,
- uncertainty,
- electronic jamming,
- corner,
- break up,
- indolent,
- vacillation,
- die away,
- clear sailing,
- throw off,
- persistent,
- square away,
- kick the bucket,
- bury,
- engrossing,
- oscitant,
- drip,
- book binding,
- flirt,
- forget,
- chequer,
- taproom,
- plain sailing,
- dormant,
- learn,
- behind,
- tough,
- benumb,
- twinned,
- leaden,
- dangle,
- stop,
- slump,
- sleeping,
- dowse,
- fall back,
- baleful,
- obstructor,
- extended,
- obturate,
- suffocate,
- soakage,
- check mark,
- turning away,
- plume,
- descent,
- go,
- preventive,
- parry,
- slammer,
- perpetuation,
- preventative,
- nail,
- prohibited,
- downslope,
- unenergetic,
- drop-off,
- staunch,
- ready and waiting,
- snap,
- withstand,
- turn back,
- pinch,
- odd,
- discharge,
- table,
- thrust,
- inactivity,
- overcharge,
- overpower,
- finalize,
- keep,
- annexe,
- gag,
- avaricious,
- inert,
- capitulation,
- soggy,
- crepuscule,
- swallow,
- slow up,
- reference,
- authority,
- degenerate,
- back and forth,
- throttling,
- chasteness,
- misgiving,
- steady down,
- education,
- menacing,
- boring,
- remand,
- questioning,
- minatory,
- time lag,
- dominance,
- engine block,
- stymy,
- nab,
- yawning,
- hook,
- masking,
- cut through,
- morass,
- dillydally,
- chokepoint,
- sulky,
- decline,
- dumb,
- replace,
- binding,
- riveting,
- tally,
- propagation,
- expect,
- substantiation,
- incumbrance,
- drag one's heels,
- rest,
- telephone extension,
- chink,
- cover up,
- survive,
- delinquent,
- slack water,
- disruption,
- asphyxiate,
- decrease,
- declension,
- tumble,
- nifty,
- incompetent,
- demur,
- tidy up,
- screen,
- come,
- drowsing,
- bachelor of arts in nursing,
- cast,
- dense,
- strangling,
- indisposition,
- waver,
- comparable,
- deflect,
- verify,
- crawl,
- exclude,
- leave out,
- absorb,
- shamble,
- overcome,
- bead,
- settle down,
- poke,
- constrictive,
- rest period,
- deciding,
- scoring,
- checker,
- disinclination,
- restrict,
- stick,
- electrical resistance,
- close up,
- slow down,
- congest,
- clink,
- extension phone,
- transmittable,
- immure,
- watch,
- dribble,
- perish,
- one-horse,
- adjourn,
- free fall,
- fall down,
- persist,
- opponent,
- ensure,
- auction block,
- dawdler,
- stick up,
- chit,
- cast off,
- muted,
- twin,
- strength,
- palliation,
- filename extension,
- encompass,
- effect,
- cover charge,
- vacillating,
- contracting,
- rotational latency,
- consequence,
- assay,
- get over,
- indecision,
- concealment,
- crushing,
- verification,
- gimpy,
- dissolution,
- still,
- sustenance,
- loose,
- let up,
- assure,
- master,
- hesitate,
- authorization,
- drop curtain,
- stymie,
- clog up,
- stem,
- occlusion,
- lengthy,
- retard,
- cut across,
- quiescency,
- defeat,
- dwindle down,
- shrinkage,
- wrap up,
- cake,
- occlude,
- covering fire,
- keen,
- dogging,
- prehension,
- rearwards,
- swamp,
- mute,
- debar,
- sensational,
- verboten,
- lagger,
- blockage,
- grabby,
- stanch,
- remain,
- bully,
- falter,
- jib,
- hanging,
- drop cloth,
- gap,
- co-ordinated,
- impediment,
- straighten out,
- jabbing,
- decease,
- softened,
- pluck,
- clean up,
- dozy,
- spread over,
- treat,
- shun,
- long-lived,
- downfall,
- crepuscle,
- hold off,
- prevision,
- sink,
- brood.
- Discontinuing,
- avoidance,
- interdiction,
- lasting,
- lag,
- remiss,
- put back,
- Debarring,
- supporting,
- lazy,
- drowsy,
- interception,
- stalling,
- extension,
- staving off,
- Ceasing,
- Protracting,
- Extending,
- watching,
- outriding,
- inactive,
- pause,
- Procrastinating,
- Mitigating,
- drown,
- backward,
- dillydallying,
- block,
- retardation,
- obviation,
- inaction,
- lollygagging,
- dormancy,
- Sustaining,
- foiling,
- banning,
- shuffling,
- Preventing,
- recess,
- Clutching,
- delayed,
- anticipation,
- frustration,
- proscription,
- suspense,
- place name,
- abate,
- forestalling,
- discontinuation,
- enjoining,
- Adjourning,
- slow-paced,
- hindrance,
- assuring,
- douse,
- delay,
- inhibition,
- potency,
- Interdicting,
- restraint,
- control,
- Deferring,
- fall,
- appeasing,
- debarment,
- drench,
- immerse,
- flagging,
- soak,
- subside,
- lengthening,
- easy going,
- Ascertaining,
- submerge,
- Intercepting,
- settle,
- remaining,
- prevention,
- bar,
- straighten,
- dwindle,
- prohibition,
- forbiddance,
- gaping,
- Demurring,
- stay,
- impedance,
- Dallying,
- abortion,
- potentiality,
- tardy,
- unbend,
- Delays,
- Gibing,
- cracking,
- quelling,
- Sojourning,
- slack,
- preclusion,
- agreeing,
- training,
- easygoing,
- indulge in,
- tempering,
- Tallying,
- adjournment,
- arrest,
- determining,
- be dilatory,
- hold up,
- ticking,
- respite,
- lackadaisical,
- dilatory,
- shilly-shallying,
- Insuring,
- baulk,
- forbidding,
- controlling,
- lagging,
- ensuring,
- surviving,
- Defying,
- clenching,
- aborting,
- abeyance,
- check,
- taboo,
- to and fro,
- set back,
- moratorium,
- Shelving,
- be late,
- Jibing,
- engulf,
- Prolonging,
- Chinking,
- Prohibiting,
- cover,
- fending off,
- Reserving,
- Avoiding,
- protracted,
- interruption,
- latent,
- descend,
- choke,
- Tabooing,
- slow-going,
- Defaulting,
- grasping,
- ban,
- diminish,
- curb,
- drop,
- halt,
- doubt,
- Clasping,
- addicted to,
- corresponding,
- hesitance,
- obstruction,
- balk,
- Procrastinatory,
- Disciplining,
- postponement,
- warding off,
- delayer,
- overwhelm,
- handling,
- suspension,
- confining,
- continuing,
- arresting,
- conditioning,
- Containing,
- Tarrying,
- matching,
- gradual,
- slow-footed,
- injunction,
- reprieve,
- intermission,
- Remitting,
- dull,
- Respiting,
- Proscribing,
- latency,
- foot-dragging,
- gripping,
- deferment,
- Vacillatory,
- Neglecting,
- lessen,
- living,
- persisting,
- mitigation,
- marking,
- baulking,
- inundate.
How to use "Delaying" in context?
"Delaying" can be a word that has a variety of meanings, but in this article, it will be used to refer to delaying something that one may want, in order to get something else. Let's consider the following example.
Dave wants to buy a new computer, but he doesn't have enough money right now. He plans to save up for a few months and then purchase the computer. but then, he gets a new job that will require him to work from home for a few months. He decides to postpone buying the computer, and instead, he will wait until he has saved up enough money to buy the computer outright.
Paraphrases for Delaying:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Procrastinating.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
postponed.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
awarding, blocking, blowing, calling, catching, challenging, defusing, dilly-dally, disabling, discouraging, dragging, dumping, easing, expanding, expelling, failing, going, hindering, holding, inhibiting, keeping, latest, leaving, lingering, means, moving, posting, preserving, pushing, putting, releasing, repelling, retaining, returning, sending, shifting, shooting, slowing, stalling, stopping, surrounding, switching, waiting, Adjourning, Deferring, Delivering, Deporting, Discontinuing, Disrupting, Evacuating, Forcing, Hampering, Handing, Messing, Mitigating, Obstructing, Referring, Rejecting, Relieving, Reserving, Shunting, Tendering, Towing, Transferring, Waiving, curbing, Postponing, Presenting, Prevaricating, Prolonging, Staying, Submitting, Surrendering, undermining, repatriating.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Adjective
delayed.
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Proper noun, singular
delay, delayed, Delays, Postponing.
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Noun, singular or mass
backwardness, delay, delayed, dilatory, procrastination, retardation, Postponing.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
impeding, Alleviating, Extending, Retarding, time-limit.
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Adjective
Homophones for Delaying:
- dalo, deli, dell, daily, dawdle, dial, dale, dalea, doyly, douala, dwell, death toll, doyley, Daedal, duly, dole, dolly, dle, dhal, doll, dal, dowdily, deadly, dual, dali, duel, dahl, daylily, diddle, dull, doily, dhole, dol, diol, deathly, dail, dottle, dottily, dowel, deal, dahlia, dl, doodle, do well, doddle, dill, day lily, delhi, detail, delilah, dally.
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- Synonyms:
- Improvisatory.