Synonyms of the word

linger

• v. (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not…
• v. (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die…
• v. (intransitive, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic…

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

dawdle

• v. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
• v. (transitive) To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.
• n. A dawdler.

footle

• v. To waste time; to trifle.
• v. To talk nonsense.
• n. nonsense; foolishness.

hesitate

• v. (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to…
• v. (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
• v. (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

hover

• v. To float in the air.
• v. To linger in one place.
• v. To waver, or be uncertain.
• v. (computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
• n. A cover; a shelter; a protection.

lallygag

• n. Horseplay, fooling around.
• n. A layabout, one who lallygags.
• v. (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
• v. (archaic, US) To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

loaf

• n. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• n. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use…
• n. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
• v. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
• v. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread).

loiter

• v. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

lollygag

• v. (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
• n. (US) Silliness, nonsense.

lounge

• n. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
• n. A domestic living room.
• n. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
• n. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
• n. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
• v. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

lurk

• v. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
• v. To remain unobserved.
• v. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
• v. (Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
• n. The act of lurking.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

persist

• v. (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to exist.
• v. (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.

remain

• n. State of remaining; stay.
• n. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
• n. (plural only) remains: That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
• n. The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.
• v. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left…
• v. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to…
• v. To await; to be left to.
• v. (copulative) To continue in a state of being.

stay

• v. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
• v. (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
• v. (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
• v. (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
• v. (transitive) To hold the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; await.
• v. (intransitive) To rest; depend; rely.
• v. (intransitive) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end; cease.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stand; stand.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
• v. (intransitive) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
• v. (intransitive, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to have a particular quality.
• v. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
• v. (obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
• v. To cause to cease; to put an end to.
• v. To fasten or secure with stays.
• n. A prop; a support.
• n. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
• n. That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
• n. A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
• n. (archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
• n. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
• n. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
• n. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
• n. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
• n. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
• n. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
• n. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
• n. (nautical) A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other…
• n. A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole,…
• n. (chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Steep; ascending.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Steeply.

tarry

• v. (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
• v. (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
• v. (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
• v. (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
• n. A sojourn.
• adj. Resembling tar.
• adj. Covered with tar.

waffle

• n. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
• n. (countable, Britain) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
• v. To smash.
• n. (uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
• v. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.
• v. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
• v. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
• v. To vacillate.
• v. (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.