Synonyms for Loitering:

• adj.

  •dilatory (adjective)
  • lax,
  • behindhand,
  • unhasty,
  • Moratory,
  • laggard,
  • Snail-like,
  • neglectful,
  • time-wasting.
  •late (adjective)
  • tardy.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • too late,
  • held up,
  • trifling,
  • unoccupied,
  • not done,
  • unpunctual,
  • strapped for time,
  • no big thing,
  • not arrived,
  • slow,
  • in a bind,
  • no big deal,
  • unengaged,
  • forget it,
  • slowgoing.
  •slow (adjective)
  • slowpoke,
  • snaillike,
  • sluggish,
  • retarded,
  • Trudging,
  • leisurely,
  • lethargic,
  • slowest,
  • slow-moving,
  • crawling,
  • dragging,
  • creeping,
  • Delaying,
  • plodding,
  • tortoiselike,
  • gradual,
  • lingering,
  • phlegmatic,
  • poky.
  •slow-footed (adjective)
  • slow footed,
  • slowfooted.
  •slow-going (adjective)
  • slow going.
  •slow-paced (adjective)
  • slow paced,
  • slowpaced.
  •tardy (adjective)
  • be lated,
  • un punctual,
  • un-punctual,
  • most detained,
  • in bind,
  • over due,
  • be-lated,
  • over-due,
  • more unpunctual,
  • most born-again,
  • most unpunctual,
  • more detained.
  •trifling (adjective)
  • in considerable,
  • in consequential,
  • in-considerable,
  • in sipid,
  • in-consequential,
  • in-sipid,
  • un-important.
  •unoccupied (adjective)
  • more unengaged,
  • un occupied,
  • most unengaged,
  • un-employed,
  • dis engaged,
  • un employed,
  • dis-engaged,
  • un-engaged,
  • un engaged,
  • un-occupied.

• n.

  •dalliance (noun)
  • dillydallyings,
  • toyings,
  • loafings,
  • de laying,
  • dilly-dallyings,
  • frivolings,
  • dabblings,
  • procrastinatings,
  • putterings,
  • fritterings,
  • dilly dallyings,
  • idlings,
  • de-laying,
  • delayings,
  • triflings,
  • loiterings.
  •delay (noun)
  • de lay,
  • pro rogations,
  • de-lays,
  • coolingoff periods,
  • tieup,
  • sur cease,
  • retardments,
  • putting offs,
  • pro-rogations,
  • de lays,
  • sur-cease,
  • sur ceases,
  • dawdlings,
  • sur-ceases,
  • pro rogation,
  • dis-continuations,
  • tarryings,
  • dis-continuation,
  • re-mission,
  • dis continuations,
  • demurrals,
  • cunctations,
  • re-missions,
  • showstoppers,
  • cooling-off periods,
  • prorogations,
  • cooling off periods,
  • re missions,
  • cooling off period,
  • re mission,
  • hold ups,
  • coolingoff period,
  • dis continuation,
  • lingerings,
  • pro-rogation,
  • de-lay.
  •idleness (noun)
  • own sweet times,
  • otiosities,
  • goofoff times,
  • goof off time,
  • time one hand,
  • time on one's hand,
  • time ones hands,
  • time burn,
  • time on ones hands,
  • un-employments,
  • un employment,
  • timewastings,
  • goofoff time,
  • time one hands,
  • time kill,
  • time on hands,
  • un employments,
  • time on ones hand,
  • un-employment,
  • goof-off times,
  • time one's hand,
  • time wastings,
  • time on hand,
  • goof off times,
  • time hand,
  • vegetatings,
  • dronings,
  • potterings,
  • time on one hand,
  • lazings,
  • unemployments,
  • joblessnesses,
  • time-wastings,
  • time ones hand,
  • time hands,
  • time on one hands,
  • time one's hands.
  •inaction (noun)
  • inertness,
  • inoperativeness.
  •inoperativeness (noun)
  • in-operativenesses,
  • in operativeness,
  • in-operativeness,
  • in operativenesses.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • idleness,
  • procrastinations,
  • logjam,
  • wait,
  • Retardment,
  • hold-ups,
  • Otiosity,
  • time to kill,
  • own sweet time,
  • retardation,
  • unemployment,
  • leisure,
  • cooling-off period,
  • joblessness,
  • Pottering,
  • demurral,
  • hangup,
  • pokings,
  • dalliance,
  • frivoling,
  • delay,
  • cunctation,
  • prorogation,
  • time on one's hands,
  • hold-up,
  • showstopper,
  • Hibernations,
  • hibernation,
  • idling,
  • time to burn,
  • goof-off time,
  • surcease,
  • logjams,
  • procrastination,
  • playings,
  • dawdling,
  • event,
  • inactivity.
  •slowness (noun)
  • sluggishness,
  • leisureliness,
  • slowness,
  • lethargy.

• v.

  •slowing (verb)
  • Retarding,
  • hindering,
  • slowing,
  • poking.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • drone,
  • baulk,
  • block,
  • languid,
  • inaction,
  • preventative,
  • check,
  • one-horse,
  • acting,
  • hitch,
  • annexe,
  • gap,
  • detain,
  • creep,
  • slow up,
  • sin,
  • clear sailing,
  • stave,
  • disruption,
  • drudgery,
  • waver,
  • game,
  • trivial,
  • nurture,
  • hand job,
  • shambling,
  • unwarranted,
  • leisure time,
  • linger,
  • persist,
  • filename extension,
  • umbrage,
  • backwardness,
  • hurrying,
  • time lag,
  • await,
  • hooky player,
  • vagabondage,
  • drag one's feet,
  • upshot,
  • torpid,
  • aper,
  • loll,
  • plod,
  • fall back,
  • demur,
  • halting,
  • sloth,
  • imitator,
  • hang around,
  • slowly,
  • offence,
  • inattentive,
  • bringing up,
  • lengthiness,
  • collar,
  • quagmire,
  • playacting,
  • impeding,
  • bum,
  • demurrer,
  • retard,
  • dumb,
  • performing,
  • plodder,
  • subnormality,
  • little,
  • hesitant,
  • university extension,
  • meandering,
  • easiness,
  • staunch,
  • comfort,
  • clumsiness,
  • wrongful conduct,
  • stagnate,
  • chronic,
  • thrusting,
  • tiresome,
  • slacken,
  • mill around,
  • bide,
  • baseless,
  • clink,
  • abatement,
  • pinch,
  • retardent,
  • dissolution,
  • let up,
  • indolence,
  • sprawling,
  • hold off,
  • dull,
  • rearward,
  • obstructive,
  • motionless,
  • drop-off,
  • deliberateness,
  • dreamy,
  • aimless,
  • rearwards,
  • promenade,
  • faineance,
  • reference,
  • acedia,
  • behind,
  • drag one's heels,
  • negligible,
  • phlegm,
  • actus reus,
  • sulky,
  • slack off,
  • tarriance,
  • faineant,
  • intermit,
  • catch,
  • nomadic,
  • easy,
  • meanwhile,
  • armed robbery,
  • telephone extension,
  • drifting,
  • prolongation,
  • boring,
  • intrusion,
  • dormant,
  • at leisure,
  • lagger,
  • mire,
  • heist,
  • wank,
  • soft,
  • dead,
  • phlegmatical,
  • feebleminded,
  • jerkwater,
  • procrastinate,
  • stickup,
  • stick-in-the-mud,
  • petty,
  • issue,
  • last out,
  • underworld,
  • slow down,
  • stroll,
  • inanition,
  • appease,
  • take advantage,
  • passive,
  • work-shy,
  • incarcerate,
  • jacking off,
  • informality,
  • ride out,
  • rearing,
  • belated,
  • meantime,
  • handicap,
  • put behind bars,
  • stall,
  • misbehavior,
  • raising,
  • jailhouse,
  • jug,
  • light,
  • inert,
  • wearisome,
  • facilitate,
  • taking into custody,
  • look,
  • simplicity,
  • stem,
  • wavering,
  • slack up,
  • remand,
  • encroachment,
  • stop,
  • criminal offence,
  • slow-witted,
  • show-stopper,
  • rambling,
  • amble,
  • wing,
  • time out,
  • trailer,
  • plain sailing,
  • slump,
  • hades,
  • alleviate,
  • rest period,
  • misbehaviour,
  • falling off,
  • drifter,
  • offensive activity,
  • thrust,
  • offensive,
  • late,
  • stoppage,
  • footle,
  • hold back,
  • infernal region,
  • retardant,
  • hold up,
  • flirting,
  • awkwardness,
  • balk,
  • waitress,
  • tick over,
  • case,
  • straggly,
  • paltry,
  • dilly-dally,
  • resiny,
  • immure,
  • turn back,
  • otiose,
  • emulator,
  • intrude,
  • breeding,
  • piffling,
  • abide,
  • languorous,
  • perambulation,
  • ho-hum,
  • nab,
  • nonattender,
  • inertia,
  • scheol,
  • overstep,
  • make,
  • lollygag,
  • discourtesy,
  • custody,
  • erratic,
  • break,
  • relaxation,
  • grind,
  • put away,
  • deliberation,
  • slowdown,
  • usurpation,
  • crawl,
  • maladroitness,
  • annex,
  • loll around,
  • no-show,
  • frig around,
  • planetary,
  • ape,
  • hesitancy,
  • stick,
  • indisposition,
  • suspension,
  • handful,
  • leaden,
  • expect,
  • back,
  • cessation,
  • nonoperational,
  • elongation,
  • obtuse,
  • flirt,
  • kibosh,
  • morass,
  • reprieve,
  • jobless,
  • interim,
  • effect,
  • hiatus,
  • outcome,
  • still,
  • gaol,
  • crippled,
  • fall behind,
  • vagabond,
  • lame,
  • result,
  • gimpy,
  • loose,
  • relieve,
  • allay,
  • rest,
  • languor,
  • die away,
  • shirking,
  • simpleness,
  • hesitate,
  • floater,
  • dispirited,
  • abate,
  • relax,
  • falloff,
  • encumbrance,
  • tardily,
  • flatness,
  • slowcoach,
  • goldbricking,
  • outride,
  • deceleration,
  • incumbrance,
  • law-breaking,
  • slackness,
  • mentally retarded,
  • file name extension,
  • donkeywork,
  • propagation,
  • clochard,
  • half-witted,
  • developmentally challenged,
  • wild,
  • tedious,
  • stopper,
  • slack water,
  • quell,
  • vacillation,
  • delinquent,
  • poke,
  • cushy,
  • groundless,
  • contain,
  • awol,
  • continue,
  • jab,
  • extension service,
  • loaf,
  • criminal offense,
  • pitchy,
  • impediment,
  • unpledged,
  • falter,
  • dawdler,
  • slug,
  • inactiveness,
  • fosterage,
  • slake,
  • stay put,
  • extension phone,
  • soggy,
  • unenergetic,
  • dim,
  • consequence,
  • mess about,
  • malingering,
  • get,
  • dense,
  • slammer,
  • unused,
  • shuffle,
  • upbringing,
  • lurk,
  • jabbing,
  • stick around,
  • dally,
  • jail,
  • unhurriedness,
  • derelict,
  • reluctance,
  • decelerate,
  • interference,
  • bum around,
  • winding,
  • relief,
  • preventive,
  • in arrears,
  • lounge around,
  • apprehension,
  • shamble,
  • mobile,
  • nail,
  • freeze,
  • lounge,
  • lilliputian,
  • apprehend,
  • picayune,
  • peregrine,
  • untenanted,
  • static,
  • remain,
  • error,
  • niggling,
  • recess,
  • waiting,
  • ineptness,
  • intermission,
  • bum about,
  • unfounded,
  • hold,
  • deterrent,
  • backwards,
  • disinclination,
  • pick up,
  • shillyshally,
  • waste one's time,
  • speed,
  • laze,
  • misconduct,
  • transgress,
  • mill about,
  • resinous,
  • fuck off,
  • stay on,
  • unpromised,
  • out of work,
  • stanch,
  • violation,
  • repose,
  • soldiering,
  • slacking,
  • ineptitude,
  • floating,
  • cop,
  • pokey,
  • lassitude,
  • imprison,
  • denotation,
  • deadening,
  • faltering,
  • lallygag,
  • mental retardation.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • footling,
  • bushwhacking,
  • extension,
  • goofing off,
  • lackadaisical,
  • slow-going,
  • deferment,
  • kidding around,
  • Procrastinatory,
  • saunter,
  • hindrance,
  • dilatoriness,
  • adjournment,
  • roving,
  • slow-footed,
  • interruption,
  • indolent,
  • lurching,
  • lounging,
  • Ambling,
  • delayed,
  • lagging,
  • loafing,
  • fostering,
  • hesitating,
  • halt,
  • straggling,
  • messing around,
  • Dolce Far Niente,
  • idle,
  • drawling,
  • truant,
  • shuffling,
  • coquetry,
  • lurking,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • playing around,
  • playing,
  • Sauntering,
  • Strolling,
  • lazy,
  • Prowling,
  • Nuzzling,
  • fooling around,
  • tarry,
  • fiddling,
  • lingerer,
  • lollygagging,
  • Ambushing,
  • Lazing,
  • arrest,
  • dillydallying,
  • slow-paced,
  • lounge about,
  • dawdle,
  • mooching,
  • Dabbling,
  • waste time,
  • foot-dragging,
  • monkeying around,
  • loiterer,
  • pause,
  • slack,
  • listless,
  • continuing,
  • lag,
  • Puttering,
  • deferral,
  • scuppering,
  • Dallying,
  • Loiteringly,
  • detention,
  • milling,
  • jerking off,
  • shiftless,
  • backward,
  • hesitation,
  • stay,
  • Hovering,
  • Tinkering,
  • toying,
  • ease,
  • slothful,
  • easy going,
  • Roaming,
  • dillydally,
  • loiter,
  • lolling,
  • monkeying,
  • Tarrying,
  • dilly-dallying,
  • dilatory,
  • be lost,
  • laziness,
  • going nowhere,
  • Procrastinating,
  • skulking,
  • smattering,
  • respite,
  • flirtation,
  • remiss,
  • piddling,
  • Fooling,
  • easygoing,
  • holdup,
  • postponement,
  • Gadding,
  • inactive,
  • wandering.

Paraphrases for Loitering:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Soliciting.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    vagrancy.

Homophones for Loitering:

• later, lottery, ladder, latria, looter, laudator, litre, lothario, litter, lead ore, lead tree, letter i, letterer, lutra, la tour, letter h, leather, loiterer, loather, litterer, laudatory, Lithia Water, lather, letter e, lauder, loader, literary, letter u, letter w, leathery, luther, luthier, letter y, lidar, littre, letter, latter, low water, leader, letter r, lathery, letter o, letter a, liter.