dawdling

Definitions

The act of wasting time or moving in a slow, aimless manner.

Lingering or delaying in the completion of a task or journey.

Examples

Stop dawdling and get your shoes on, or we will be late for school.

He spent the entire afternoon dawdling in the garden instead of finishing his chores.

There is no time for dawdling if we want to catch the last train of the night.

Synonyms

loitering dallying lingering procrastinating lagging tarrying idle

Antonyms

hastening rushing hurrying speeding accelerating dashing scurrying