Synonyms and Antonyms of dawdle
1
to move or act slowly
- if you continue to dawdle, we'll be late for sure
crawl, creep, dally, 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
2
to spend time doing nothing
- accused the city council of dawdling even as the crime rate was spiraling out of control
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about [British], idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out
fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
doze, estivate (also aestivate), hibernate
lag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarry
amble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swan
furlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant
drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, work
apply, buckle (down)
exert,
