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time-wasting
adjective as in dilatory
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
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noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
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Example Sentences
One trouble with dormitory school life is that it fosters leisure-wasting and time-wasting "gang" habits.
One of the greatest time-wasting sins is idleness, or sloth.
Verily, if I looked but on this one unreasonable sin of time-wasting, it would help me to understand the meaning of Luke xv.
Even about your lawful, worldly business, it is a time-wasting sin to be slothful.
Another time-wasting thief is excess of worldly cares and business.
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On this page you'll find 259 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to time-wasting, such as: backward, behindhand, dallying, delaying, deliberate, and laggard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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