Word Meanings - LOITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers. 2. To wander as an idle vagrant. Spenser.

Additional info about word: LOITER

1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers. 2. To wander as an idle vagrant. Spenser. Syn. -- To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOITER)

• Lag
• Loiter
• linger
• saunter
• dally
• tarry
• Idle
• Linger
• Tarry
• loiter
• lag
• hesitate
• wait
• Saunter
• Roam
• stroll
• wander
• dawdle
• lounge
• Rest
• abide
• halt
• flag
• continue
• remain
• sojourn
• delay
• stop
• stay

Related words: (words related to LOITER)

• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• ABIDER
  1. One who abides, or continues. "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.
• DALLY
  trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already;
• TARRY
  Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• LOITERER
  1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
• LOUNGER
  One who lounges; ar idler.
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• DAWDLE
  To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray. (more info) Etym:
• CONTINUEDLY
  Continuously.
• STROLL
  To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift. Syn. -- To rove; roam; range; stray. (more info) dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about, Icel. strj to stroke, D.
• LOITERINGLY
  In a loitering manner.
• ABIDE
  1. To wait; to pause; to delay. Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv.
• HESITATE
  haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate
• LOUNGE
  To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay. (more info) be fr. Longinus,
• LINGERER
  One who lingers. Guardian.
• LINGER
  To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. Gray. Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained.
• LINGERINGLY
  With delay; slowly; tediously.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• HEBDOMADALLY
  In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.
• DILLY-DALLY
  To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
• STARRY
  1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." Pope. 2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and