Synonyms of the word lounge


LOUNGEBE - COUCH - FOOTLE - LALLYGAG - LINGER - LOAF - LOITER - LOLLYGAG - LURK - ROOM - SEAT - SIT - SOFA - TARRY

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.

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…

couch

  • n. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
  • n. A bed, a resting-place.
  • n. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
  • n. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied…
  • v. To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
  • v. (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved…
  • v. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
  • v. (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
  • v. (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
  • v. (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
  • v. (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with…
  • v. (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould…
  • v. (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
  • v. To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
  • n. Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

footle

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

room

  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  • adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
  • n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  • n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  • n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
  • n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  • n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
  • n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  • n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
  • n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  • n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
  • n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
  • n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  • n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
  • n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  • v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  • v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

seat

  • n. Something to be sat upon.
  • n. A location or site.
  • n. The starting point of a fire.
  • n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
  • v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
  • v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
  • v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
  • v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
  • v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
  • v. To put a seat or bottom in.

sit

  • v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the…
  • v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
  • v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
  • v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
  • v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
  • v. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
  • v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
  • v. To be adjusted; to fit.
  • v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
  • v. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
  • v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit.
  • v. (transitive, US) To babysit.
  • v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
  • v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
  • v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture…
  • v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
  • n. (rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

sofa

  • n. An upholstered seat, typically having sides and back, long enough to accommodate two or more people.

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.

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