dawdle

dawdle is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
2. transitive verb. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
3. noun. A dawdler.
4. verb. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

   Synonyms: lag

5. verb. waste time

   "Get busy--don't dally!"

   Synonyms: dally

6. verb. take one's time; proceed slowly

   Synonyms: linger

Synonyms

lag, dally, linger

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dawdle:

waddle

Common word forms

dawdled, dawdler, dawdles, dawdling

Words from these letters

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