Synonyms for linger
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Verb
1. Loiter — to stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so
wait, loiter, remain, hang around, pause, stop, lurk, saunter, lag, delay, mill around, mess about, mill about, lounge, loaf, lollygag US, footle, await, bide, procrastinate, diddle, tarry dated
Other
hover, drag, dilly-dally, dolly, doddle
Definitions
- v. 1
To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
Forms
- Past participle
- lingered
e.g. lingered → waited, loitered, remained, paused…
Example sentences
- remain No visitor can remain in the hospital after 9 p.m.
- pause In Lojban, the dot "." is a pause or glottal stop.
- loiter They don't work, they just loiter in the streets.
- hover "When you're ready, pick it up and hover over to the helipad."
By length
- 3 letters
- lag1
- 4 letters
- stop1, wait1, drag1, loaf1, lurk1, bide1
- 5 letters
- delay2, pause1, await2, dolly2, hover2, tarry2
- 6 letters
- remain2, lounge1, loiter2, diddle2, doddle, footle
- 7 letters
- saunter2
- 8 letters
- lollygag
- 13 letters
- procrastinate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delay2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- s'installer