Synonyms for procrastinate
All synonyms
Verb
1. Postpone
postpone, put off, delay, defer, prolong, stall, stay, dilly-dally, draw out, lag, drag one's heels, drag one's feet, suspend, loiter, adjourn, extend, retard, protract, linger, stave off, tarry dated, penelopize rare, penelopise UK
Other
shirk, eld, dolly, lollygag US, temporize dated UK US, temporise UK, procrastine dated, perendinate formal rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To delay taking action; to wait until later.
He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
Related words
- Word family
- procrastination procrastinator
- Is a kind of
- loiter waste time
Forms
- Past participle
- procrastinated
e.g. procrastinated → postponed, delayed, deferred, prolonged…
Example sentences
- postpone We are left with having to postpone our departure.
- defer I defer to no one in my admiration for these heroes.
- shirk I won’t mislead you, I won’t betray you, I won't shirk!
By length
- 3 letters
- lag1, eld
- 4 letters
- stay1
- 5 letters
- delay2, stall1, dolly2, defer2, shirk1, tarry2
- 6 letters
- extend2, retard2, linger2, loiter2
- 7 letters
- suspend2, prolong2, adjourn2
- 8 letters
- postpone2, protract2, lollygag
- 9 letters
- temporize3, temporise
- 10 letters
- penelopize, penelopise
- 11 letters
- procrastine, perendinate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delay2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- procrastiner
- Español
- postergar
- Deutsch
- prokrastinieren