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procrastination
noun as in dalliance
Weak matches
noun as in delay
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in filibuster
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in hesitancy
noun as in hesitation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in indecisiveness
Strong matches
noun as in indolence
Strong matches
noun as in irresoluteness
Strong matches
noun as in irresolution
Strong matches
noun as in postponement
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in retardation
Strong matches
noun as in tentativeness
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- timidity
- timidness
- to and fro
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
noun as in timidness
Strong matches
noun as in to and fro
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- tentativeness
- timidity
- timidness
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
Example Sentences
We have a limited number of Startup Exhibitor Packages available, and procrastination is not your friend.
Lots of people engage in “revenge bedtime procrastination,” which describes a tendency to push off sleep to make time for personal activities.
Consistently rewarding earliness, he said, could help curb procrastination.
How to overcome procrastination By overcoming your tendency to stall, then, you can improve your mental and physical well-being.
Kick procrastination to the curb and keep more money in your wallet.
Procrastination is certainly a problem for many at work and school.
“Bedtime procrastination may be a relatively modern phenomenon,” explained Kroese.
“Stop procrastinating” focuses your brain on procrastination.
Eder Campuzano: Doing the laundry you put off for two weeks for free is like winning the World Series of procrastination.
Why both sides see procrastination now as the path to getting their way later, after Election Day.
The Daemon of procrastination has at length yielded to the Genius of Friendship, assisted indeed by the powers of fear and shame.
The Directors, after much procrastination, drew up and submitted their case.
But procrastination is a South American characteristic, and the affair drifted on until, in 1888, a Convention was made.
And Philip, never quite ready for any important decision, praised his lieutenant's delay, and inculcated further procrastination.
Procrastination was a thief that had never succeeded in wresting much time from Hepworth.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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