Definition for Pause:

• To cause to stop or rest; - used reflexively.

Synonyms for Pause:

• n.

  •
  • give up,
  • hesitancy,
  • drop,
  • interim,
  • lapse,
  • breather,
  • stopover.
  •
  • deadlock,
  • ARR,
  • clef,
  • truce,
  • bar,
  • steadiness,
  • allegro,
  • adagio,
  • andante,
  • lull,
  • interregnum,
  • ceaselessness.
  •
  • deactivate,
  • disengage,
  • cut,
  • confuse,
  • flick,
  • flash,
  • disable,
  • immobilize,
  • cannibalize.
  •
  • abide,
  • tarry,
  • linger,
  • bide.
  •
  • decide,
  • vacillate,
  • control,
  • dither,
  • wobble,
  • lever,
  • knob,
  • stagger,
  • panel,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • dial,
  • console,
  • release.
  •cessation (noun)
  • closure,
  • stoppage,
  • ending,
  • abandonment,
  • cessation,
  • interruption,
  • standstill,
  • termination,
  • discontinuance,
  • hiatus.
  •coffee break (noun)
  • tea break.
  •deadlock (noun)
  • stalemate,
  • gridlock.
  •ending (noun)
  • cessation.
  •gap (noun)
  • Interspace.
  •inactivity (noun)
  • rest.
  •interruption (noun)
  • interlude,
  • postponement,
  • suspension,
  • hitch,
  • relief,
  • interval.
  •layover (noun)
  • stopover.
  •leisure (noun)
  • leisure.
  •pause (noun)
  • hesitate,
  • intermit,
  • suspension,
  • break,
  • interruption,
  • intermission.
  •rest (noun)
  • breather.
  •scruple (noun)
  • scruple.
  •stalemate (noun)
  • impasse.
  •stop (noun)
  • discontinuation,
  • standstill,
  • discontinuity.
  •time (noun)
  • break,
  • suspension,
  • interruption,
  • intermission.
  •wait, delay (noun)
  • comma,
  • hesitancy,
  • gap,
  • cutoff,
  • recess,
  • interregnum,
  • breathing space,
  • freeze,
  • layoff,
  • discontinuance,
  • interruption,
  • interval,
  • rest,
  • interim,
  • respite,
  • abeyance,
  • break,
  • hesitation,
  • lacuna,
  • stopover,
  • gridlock,
  • hush,
  • standstill,
  • breathing spell,
  • downtime,
  • pausation,
  • intermission,
  • deadlock,
  • stand,
  • letup,
  • lapse,
  • hiatus,
  • caesura,
  • happy hour,
  • halt,
  • hitch,
  • stay,
  • interlude,
  • suspension,
  • stillness,
  • coffee break,
  • cessation,
  • lull,
  • stoppage,
  • rest period.

• v.

  •cease (verb)
  • close,
  • stop,
  • culminate,
  • quit,
  • forbear,
  • cease,
  • stay,
  • desist,
  • discontinue,
  • suspend,
  • halt,
  • remit,
  • terminate,
  • break,
  • refrain,
  • interrupt,
  • end,
  • abandon.
  •ceases (verb)
  • refrain,
  • cease,
  • quit,
  • halt,
  • stop,
  • abandon,
  • interrupt,
  • discontinue,
  • suspend,
  • stay,
  • terminate,
  • remit,
  • culminate,
  • break,
  • close,
  • end,
  • desist.
  •hesitate (verb)
  • falter,
  • hesitate,
  • delay,
  • recoil,
  • shrink,
  • balk,
  • wait.
  •interrupt (verb)
  • postpone,
  • snag,
  • recess,
  • relieve,
  • reprieve.
  •rest (verb)
  • fix,
  • stand,
  • mark time,
  • rest,
  • quiet,
  • calm,
  • vegetate,
  • becalm,
  • settle,
  • stagnate,
  • slumber,
  • subside,
  • still,
  • tranquilize,
  • sleep,
  • settle down.
  •stative (verb)
  • hesitate.
  •stop (verb)
  • hold,
  • freeze.
  •wait, delay (verb)
  • cease,
  • deliberate,
  • drop,
  • shake,
  • hold back,
  • think twice,
  • catch one's breath,
  • interrupt,
  • take ten,
  • hesitate,
  • desist,
  • break it up,
  • reflect,
  • take five,
  • suspend,
  • come to standstill,
  • waver,
  • stop briefly,
  • sideline,
  • take a breather,
  • call time,
  • take a break,
  • discontinue,
  • put on hold.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • drop,
  • remain,
  • tentativeness,
  • give up,
  • forsake,
  • discontinuity,
  • truce,
  • apostrophe,
  • indecisiveness,
  • lay off,
  • lacuna,
  • think twice,
  • stopping,
  • time lag,
  • irresolution,
  • irresoluteness.
  •
  • plateau,
  • timidness,
  • lull,
  • indecision,
  • vacillate,
  • to and fro,
  • remission,
  • vacillation,
  • bide.
  •
  • lapse,
  • linger,
  • hold up,
  • safety,
  • tarry,
  • discontinuation,
  • timidity.
  •
  • breathe,
  • dial,
  • stagger,
  • lever,
  • wobble,
  • treble,
  • lag,
  • console.
  •
  • knob,
  • abide.
  •
  • panel.
  •
  • release,
  • control.
  •break
  • layover.
  •deadlock
  • stalemate.
  •defer
  • procrastinate.
  •deferment
  • surcease.
  •delay
  • hesitation,
  • hesitancy.
  •disagree
  • demur.
  •falter
  • Shilly-shally,
  • stammer.
  •hang back
  • hang off.
  •hesitate
  • stutter,
  • think about,
  • pull back,
  • think twice,
  • be reluctant,
  • hold off,
  • be irresolute.
  •interval
  • interim,
  • letup,
  • interregnum.
  •lay over
  • stopover.
  •linger
  • loiter.
  •pause
  • breath.
  •postponement
  • deferment.
  •procrastinate
  • hang fire.
  •recess
  • adjournment.
  •remain
  • put on hold.
  •respite
  • coffee break.
  •rest
  • be quiet.
  •stalemate
  • impasse.
  •standstill
  • deadlock.
  •stop
  • come to standstill.
  •stutter
  • hem and haw.
  •Other relevant words:
  • burn out,
  • hum and haw,
  • disclose,
  • put on hold,
  • measure,
  • wobble,
  • symbol,
  • deferment,
  • irresoluteness,
  • linger,
  • stretch,
  • direct,
  • Vinculum,
  • clef,
  • breather,
  • suppress,
  • void,
  • boundary,
  • lacuna,
  • decrease,
  • endure,
  • rip,
  • accordingly,
  • trip,
  • anchor,
  • blockage,
  • let on,
  • period,
  • colon,
  • respite,
  • give away,
  • shyness,
  • vacillate,
  • knob,
  • breathing,
  • imperturbable,
  • space,
  • in no time,
  • hurriedly,
  • go bad,
  • be undecided,
  • immobilize,
  • fall in,
  • sober,
  • impassive,
  • objection,
  • disjoin,
  • hanging,
  • stumble,
  • bind,
  • shy at,
  • sideline,
  • shut down,
  • let pass,
  • layoff,
  • fail,
  • ponder,
  • interpose,
  • demure,
  • therewith,
  • offend,
  • relax,
  • stagger,
  • stick,
  • sojourn,
  • against the clock,
  • control,
  • release,
  • cloture,
  • take five,
  • pronto,
  • stalemate,
  • protraction,
  • fracture,
  • erupt,
  • conveniently,
  • dwindling,
  • equable,
  • peaceable,
  • notation,
  • moratorium,
  • intervene,
  • holdup,
  • lay to,
  • dally,
  • siesta,
  • come,
  • remainder,
  • early,
  • break away,
  • tear,
  • take a breather,
  • breathing spell,
  • cease-fire,
  • panel,
  • block,
  • Haver,
  • be inactive,
  • gulf,
  • in real time,
  • tentativeness,
  • breathing time,
  • fear,
  • compunction,
  • bump,
  • have doubts,
  • break out,
  • drop,
  • without hesitation,
  • bankrupt,
  • prison-breaking,
  • melt down,
  • time off,
  • waffle,
  • fast,
  • aperture,
  • tranquillity,
  • lessening,
  • quiescent,
  • tempo mark,
  • off-hand,
  • collapse,
  • waver,
  • frankly,
  • deliberate,
  • rent,
  • debate,
  • get out,
  • crack,
  • leave alone,
  • collected,
  • blench,
  • Scrupulosity,
  • take a break,
  • part,
  • shift,
  • speedily,
  • coffee break,
  • hang on,
  • cleft,
  • key signature,
  • hesitation,
  • at once,
  • founder,
  • baulk,
  • positively,
  • confuse,
  • prisonbreak,
  • give up,
  • balance,
  • extent,
  • protest,
  • mild,
  • wince,
  • nearly,
  • lay off,
  • adjournment,
  • not move,
  • standing still,
  • hindrance,
  • deactivate,
  • Boggling,
  • forbear,
  • hole,
  • holdover,
  • punctually,
  • lagging,
  • spell,
  • stall,
  • tea break,
  • like now,
  • console,
  • placid,
  • cavity,
  • half rest,
  • shrinking,
  • deferral,
  • warmly,
  • refresh,
  • unbend,
  • commit,
  • boggle,
  • take breath,
  • expeditiously,
  • opening,
  • idle,
  • cunctation,
  • tergiversate,
  • breath,
  • let out,
  • while,
  • hesitance,
  • suspense,
  • shortly,
  • high time,
  • give out,
  • detente,
  • slack,
  • peacefulness,
  • Incontinently,
  • brief stop,
  • transgress,
  • suddenly,
  • fault,
  • time-out,
  • reflect,
  • back down,
  • readily,
  • cool,
  • gridlock,
  • signature,
  • at full tilt,
  • instantly,
  • breaking,
  • unhesitatingly,
  • reserved,
  • cannibalize,
  • like a shot,
  • kick downstairs,
  • come to standstill,
  • lightly,
  • snap the thread,
  • discover,
  • break-in,
  • summarily,
  • discontinuation,
  • breathe,
  • caesura,
  • happy hour,
  • segno,
  • conk out,
  • be reluctant,
  • give,
  • dally with,
  • time,
  • aptly,
  • finish,
  • keep,
  • lag,
  • better,
  • temporary removal,
  • get around,
  • falling out,
  • develop,
  • breathing space,
  • stop briefly,
  • breakage,
  • semicolon,
  • momentarily,
  • retardation,
  • division,
  • lock,
  • dither,
  • duly,
  • Delation,
  • properly,
  • lever,
  • without delay,
  • quail,
  • accent mark,
  • smooth,
  • hang-up,
  • right,
  • stand-down,
  • break it up,
  • bide,
  • qualm,
  • serene,
  • soften,
  • comma,
  • indetermination,
  • compromise,
  • let be,
  • abate,
  • scruple,
  • discontinuity,
  • declare,
  • fight shy of,
  • leisure,
  • remain,
  • composed,
  • chink,
  • Pausing,
  • cancel,
  • sedate,
  • dwell,
  • day off,
  • dampen,
  • viz,
  • accent,
  • PRESA,
  • interim,
  • tie,
  • cave in,
  • hold up,
  • terminal,
  • slowness,
  • straight off,
  • stop to consider,
  • happen,
  • breathing place,
  • lapse,
  • correctly,
  • break off,
  • deadlock,
  • stutter,
  • precisely,
  • embargo,
  • hold on,
  • wavering,
  • hang off,
  • plateau,
  • violate,
  • cutoff,
  • timely,
  • diffidence,
  • ligature,
  • character,
  • hold off,
  • open frame,
  • pull back,
  • stop in,
  • silent,
  • span,
  • thereupon,
  • tarry,
  • repose,
  • directly,
  • downtime,
  • breach,
  • absolutely,
  • rift,
  • accurately,
  • in abeyance,
  • heave to,
  • be quiet,
  • wobbling,
  • exactly,
  • obstruction,
  • geological fault,
  • dead stop,
  • diminution,
  • entr'acte,
  • shutoff,
  • decline,
  • truce,
  • hang in suspense,
  • snap off,
  • swiftly,
  • word boundary,
  • arrival,
  • forsake,
  • hover,
  • rupture,
  • abort,
  • steadiness,
  • out of hand,
  • sign,
  • announce,
  • earnestly,
  • break of serve,
  • vacillation,
  • abatement,
  • vacation,
  • stickle,
  • jailbreak,
  • to and fro,
  • layover,
  • jam,
  • drop-off,
  • recrudesce,
  • conclude,
  • Hinderance,
  • reduction,
  • intermit,
  • dark,
  • bring out,
  • time lag,
  • off-time,
  • irresolution,
  • bring to,
  • time signature,
  • leave off,
  • hastily,
  • unruffled,
  • qualmishness,
  • breakout,
  • lively,
  • contiguously,
  • soon,
  • hesitant,
  • mark,
  • go against,
  • ARR,
  • be loath,
  • lead,
  • withdraw,
  • like lightning,
  • stammer,
  • make bones about,
  • hold back,
  • Proximately,
  • dispassionate,
  • presently,
  • dial,
  • relinquish,
  • entirely,
  • decide,
  • openly,
  • in a flash,
  • procrastination,
  • equivocate,
  • fall off,
  • straightway,
  • infract,
  • Faulting,
  • afterthought,
  • tie up,
  • instantaneously,
  • stopover,
  • logjam,
  • inactivity,
  • jib,
  • hang fire,
  • timidness,
  • lunch break,
  • leeway,
  • intermezzo,
  • defect,
  • check,
  • Strain at,
  • slur,
  • juncture,
  • ceaselessness,
  • abeyance,
  • timidity,
  • bust,
  • easily,
  • slow up,
  • reflect on,
  • think twice about,
  • severance,
  • advertise,
  • closely,
  • rapidly,
  • dragging,
  • put in order,
  • right away,
  • Interspace,
  • Fermata,
  • arrest,
  • disable,
  • bar,
  • expressly,
  • bashfulness,
  • lull,
  • now,
  • Deferring,
  • faire,
  • full stop,
  • lie to,
  • weaken,
  • stopping,
  • abstain,
  • extend,
  • federal case,
  • slip,
  • apostrophe,
  • in a jiffy,
  • treble,
  • blunder,
  • namely,
  • remission,
  • point,
  • duration,
  • quickly,
  • visit,
  • reveal,
  • cut,
  • Stickling,
  • go halfway,
  • pausation,
  • come apart,
  • be afraid,
  • expose,
  • relaxation,
  • allow,
  • demote,
  • stand still,
  • wear out,
  • draw up,
  • think about,
  • gap,
  • playtime,
  • promptly,
  • dangling,
  • intermission,
  • safety,
  • immediately,
  • flick,
  • slacken,
  • loiter,
  • split up,
  • die,
  • take time out,
  • disruption,
  • rest period,
  • break down,
  • Ceasing,
  • explicitly,
  • yield,
  • call time,
  • abruptly,
  • abide,
  • Custos,
  • adagio,
  • faltering,
  • dot,
  • temporize,
  • good luck,
  • hesitancy,
  • hang back,
  • retreat,
  • flinch,
  • andante,
  • impart,
  • dissever,
  • give way,
  • sandhi,
  • take ten,
  • procrastinate,
  • hush,
  • catch one's breath,
  • nap,
  • lodge,
  • remnant,
  • happy chance,
  • level,
  • impasse,
  • blackout,
  • let-up,
  • downturn,
  • shrink from,
  • peace,
  • bestow,
  • without further ado,
  • distance,
  • stop for breath,
  • quarter rest,
  • blockade,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • Fastly,
  • interregnum,
  • think twice,
  • detention,
  • stay of execution,
  • minim,
  • disengage,
  • have qualms,
  • prorogation,
  • shy,
  • intermittence,
  • shake,
  • bide one's time,
  • stick at,
  • demurral,
  • burst,
  • indecision,
  • gaolbreak,
  • not do,
  • modesty,
  • halftime,
  • specially,
  • urgently,
  • suspension system,
  • stop short,
  • cut back,
  • damp,
  • scrupulousness,
  • cocktail hour,
  • demur,
  • stillness,
  • divulge,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • disrupt,
  • indecisiveness,
  • spare,
  • allegro,
  • staid,
  • hem and haw,
  • letup,
  • be irresolute,
  • fence-sitting,
  • slowdown,
  • dillydally,
  • fissure,
  • ruin,
  • straddle the fence,
  • nerveless,
  • think over,
  • relegate,
  • flash,
  • wear,
  • smash,
  • stand aloof,
  • strain,
  • forthwith,
  • holiday,
  • disconnect,
  • crevice,
  • moderation,
  • surcease,
  • dawdle,
  • swell,
  • unwrap,
  • dilly-dally,
  • separate,
  • fall apart,
  • split,
  • levelling off.

Antonyms for Pause:

• n.

  • wait, delay
    action, advance, go, continuity, start, persistence, continuation, activity.
  • Other antonyms:
    extension, progression, confidence, institute, prolongation, initiate, progress, certainty, determination, continuation, readiness, persistence, originate, sureness, begin, eagerness, resoluteness, commence, enter upon, endurance, decisiveness, inaugurate, alacrity, set about, certitude, firmness, start, resolution.

• v.

  • wait, delay
    keep on, persist, continue, restart, rise, carry on, DO.

Homophones for Pause:

• paws.

Hypernym for Pause:

• n.

  • act
    hesitation, halt, intermission, break, falter, respite, time out, waver, freeze, faltering, recess.
  • time
    rest period, halftime, rest, relief, dead air, caesura, respite, lull, time-out, wait, blackout, time lag, lapse, delay, hold, postponement, letup.

• v.

  • stative
    scruple, hem and haw.

Hyponym for Pause:

• n.

  • act
    inactivity.
  • time
    time interval, interval.

• v.

  • stative
    delay.