Antonyms for taking time
| Grammar : Adv, verb |
- advance
- agitate
- aid
- allow
- assist
- be active
- be content
- be happy
- carry on
- carry out
- complete
- continue
- depart
- do
- encourage
- energize
- excite
- expedite
- face
- finish
- forge
- forward
- further
- go
- go ahead
- grow
- halt
- hectically
- help
- hurriedly
- hurry
- increase
- irritate
- leave
- meet
- move
- permit
- promote
- push
- release
- run
- rush
- tense
- tiptoe
- worry
Definition of taking time
- As in leisurely : adv casually, unhurriedly
- As in linger : verb loiter, delay
- As in relax : verb be or feel at ease
- As in stall : verb delay for own purposes
- As in tarry : verb dawdle, delay
- As in trouble : verb make an effort
- As in waste time : verb idle away time
Synonyms for taking time
- abide
- amble
- arrest
- at one's convenience
- at one's leisure
- avoid the issue
- be concerned with
- be dilatory
- be long
- be tardy
- beat around the bush
- bide
- brake
- breathe easy
- burn daylight
- calm
- calm down
- calmly
- check
- collect oneself
- comfortably
- compose oneself
- composedly
- cool off
- crawl
- dally
- dawdle
- delay
- deliberately
- die
- dilatorily
- dillydally
- drag
- drag one's feet
- drift
- dwell
- ease off
- easily
- equivocate
- exert
- falter
- feel at home
- fence
- fiddle about
- filibuster
- fool around
- fritter away
- fritter away time
- get no place fast
- go to the effort of
- goof around
- goof off
- gradually
- halt
- hamper
- hang around
- hang loose
- hang out
- hedge
- hesitate
- hinder
- hobble
- hold off
- hold the phone
- idle
- inactively
- indolently
- interrupt
- kill time
- knock off
- lag
- laggardly
- langorously
- languidly
- laze
- lazily
- let oneself go
- lethargically
- lie down
- linger
- lingeringly
- listlessly
- lodge
- loiter
- loll
- lollygag
- loosen up
- lose time
- lumber
- make oneself at home
- mope
- mosey
- not move
- pass the time
- pause
- piddle
- play for time
- plod
- poke
- postpone
- prevaricate
- procrastinate
- put off
- put one's feet up
- putter
- quibble
- recline
- remain
- repose
- rest
- saunter
- settle back
- shilly-shally
- shuffle
- shut down
- simmer down
- sit around
- sit back
- slouch
- slow
- slow down
- slowly
- sluggishly
- soften
- sojourn
- stagger
- stall
- stand
- stand off
- stand still
- stay
- stick around
- still
- stonewall
- stop
- stop over
- stop work
- stroll
- suspend
- tail
- take a break
- take a breather
- take it easy
- take one's own sweet time
- take one's time
- take pains
- take ten
- take the time
- take time out
- taking one's time
- tardily
- tarry
- temporize
- tool
- torpidly
- totter
- trail
- traipse
- tranquilize
- trifle
- trudge
- unbend
- unlax
- unwind
- vacillate
- visit
- wait
- wait around
- warm a chair
- while away the time
- with delay
- without haste
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