Synonyms for waste time
- verb
Most common
mess around burn time dolly doddle slack off fiddle about diddle loiter
All synonyms
Verb
dolly, about, doddle, mess around, burn time, slack off, diddle, loiter, fiddle about, fritter, faff about UK, piddle away, fuck around vulgar slang, dick around vulgar slang, screw around slang, piss away vulgar slang, goof off slang US AU, fanny about slang UK, footle rare, fiddlefart rare, fiddlefuck vulgar slang US CA
Definitions
- v. 1
To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.
Example sentences
- doddle Finding something is a doddle when you know where it is.
By length
- 5 letters
- about2, dolly2
- 6 letters
- diddle2, loiter2, doddle, footle
- 7 letters
- fritter2
- 10 letters
- fiddlefart, fiddlefuck
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (about2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- perdre son temps