Synonyms and Antonyms of dally
1
to engage in activity for amusement
- he spent his college years dallying, seemingly determined to acquire as little knowledge as possible
cavort, frisk, gambol, romp
dabble, trifle
amuse, divert, entertain
delight, please
dabble, fiddle (around), mess around, putter (around)
bum (around), dawdle, goldbrick, hang, hang about [British], idle, loaf, lounge (around or about), relax, rest, screw around, slack (off)
jest, joke, tease
drudge, labor, plod, plug (away), slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, work
2
to move or act slowly
- don't dally on the way to the interview
crawl, creep, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag (also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry
fiddle (around), fool around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, lounge
amble, ease, inch, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger, stroll
decelerate, slow (down or up)
filibuster, procrastinate, stall, temporize
bowl, breeze, dart, hump, hurtle, hustle, scramble, stampede
gallop, jog, run, sprint, trot
accelerate, quicken, speed (up)
catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake
barrel, bolt, career, course, dash, fly, hasten, hotfoot (it), hurry, race, rip, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scud, scurry, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, whiz (or whizz), zip
3
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun
- she spent the summer dallying with a guy renting the neighboring beach house
