Synonyms for Pause:

• n.

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

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

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

Antonyms for Pause:

• n.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    action, activity, advance, advancement, alacrity, carry on, certainty, certitude, confidence, continuance, continuation, continue, continuity, decisiveness, determination, eagerness, endurance, extend, extension, persist, persistence, proceed, progress, progression, prolong, prolongation, readiness, resoluteness, resolution, restart, rise, start, stretch, sureness, DO.

• v.

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