Synonyms for postpone
Definitions
- v. 1
To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
Related words
- Word family
- postponable postponement postponence postponer
Forms
- Past participle
- postponed
e.g. postponed → deferred, delayed, suspended, shelved…
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Postpone implies a definite intention to resume, as defer also does, though less decidedly; both are often used with some definite limitation of time; as, to postpone till, until, or to a certain day or hour.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- delay He's desperately trying to make up for the delay.
- suspend The principal decided to suspend Lorenzo for a week.
- defer I defer to no one in my admiration for these heroes.
By length
- 4 letters
- stay1
- 5 letters
- table2, delay2, stall1, dolly2, defer2, remit2
- 6 letters
- retard2, shelve1
- 7 letters
- suspend2, adjourn2
- 8 letters
- prorogue, forestay, protract2
- 11 letters
- posticipate
- 13 letters
- procrastinate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (table2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- postposer
- Italiano
- posticipare
- Deutsch
- nachsetzen