pottering

as ininactivity
as ininertness
as ininoperativeness
as inidleness
as inmess around
as inputter
as intrifle
as intwiddle
as infiddle

Synonyms for pottering

noun inaction

Antonyms for pottering

Word Origin & History

"maker of pots" (they also sometimes doubled as bell-founders), late Old English pottere "potter," reinforced by Old French potier "potter," agent noun from root of pot (n.1). As a surname from late 12c. Potter's field (1520s) is Biblical, a ground where clay suitable for pottery was dug, later purchased by high priests of Jerusalem as a burying ground for strangers, criminals, and the poor (Matt. xxvii:7). An older Old English word for "potter" was crocwyrhta "crock-wright."

Example Sentences forpottering

I could manage the little jobs that I'd get—in fact, pottering about at them would do me good.

He left the room and she heard him pottering in the kitchen.

Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately.

The men were a sculptor, pottering with clay, and his model.

Harlan was engaged in that pleasant pastime known as “pottering.”

Then she saw old Lawdor pottering in and out of a room into which she had not yet looked.

In an humble and pottering way, we are a happy family, James.

What did that pottering vagabond mean by arousing us in the middle of the night?

I am not fit for anything more now than pottering about with my fishing-lines.

And what a pottering old rascal Charley was among the stone walls.

pottering

Synonyms for pottering

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More words related to pottering

idleness

inactivity

inertness

inoperativeness