Antonyms for dawdlings
| Grammar : Noun |
- action
- activity
- advance
- aid
- ambition
- assistance
- beginning
- belief
- boon
- boost
- busyness
- certainty
- confidence
- continuation
- diligence
- dispatch
- eagerness
- employment
- energy
- expedition
- faith
- furtherance
- go
- hastening
- help
- hurry
- hustle
- industry
- labor
- liberation
- life
- liveliness
- occupation
- perseverance
- promotion
- rush
- speed
- start
- support
- sureness
- trust
- vigor
- work
Definition of dawdlings
- As in inactivity : noun inaction
- As in indecisiveness : noun hesitation
- As in inertness : noun inaction
- As in inoperativeness : noun inaction
- As in irresoluteness : noun hesitation
- As in irresolution : noun hesitation
- As in retardation : noun delay
- As in tentativeness : noun hesitation
- As in timidness : noun hesitation
- As in to-and-fro : noun hesitation
- As in delay : noun deferment, interruption
- As in hesitation : noun waiting; uncertainty
- As in idleness : noun laziness, inaction
Synonyms for dawdlings
- adjournment
- averseness
- bind
- check
- cooling-off period
- cunctation
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- detainment
- detention
- dilly-dallying
- discontinuation
- dormancy
- doubt
- downtime
- droning
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- filibuster
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- goof-off time
- hangup
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- hibernation
- hindrance
- hold-up
- holding
- holding pattern
- holdup
- idleness
- impediment
- inactivity
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- inoperativeness
- interval
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- jam
- joblessness
- lag
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- lingering
- loafing
- logjam
- loitering
- misgiving
- mistrust
- moratorium
- obstruction
- oscillation
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pause
- postponement
- pottering
- problem
- procrastination
- prorogation
- putting off
- qualm
- reluctance
- remission
- reprieve
- retardation
- retardment
- scruple
- setback
- shiftlessness
- shilly-shally
- showstopper
- skepticism
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stall
- stammering
- stay
- stop
- stoppage
- stumbling
- stupor
- stuttering
- surcease
- suspension
- tarrying
- tentativeness
- tie-up
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- timidity
- timidness
- to-and-fro
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- vegetating
- wait
- wavering
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