Word Meanings - LINGERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LINGERING)

• Slow
• Sluggish
• inactive
• Inert
• lazy
• unready
• tardy
• late
• gradual
• tedious
• dull
• dilatory
• lingering
• slack

Related words: (words related to LINGERING)

• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• GRADUAL
  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
• SLACK; SLACKEN
  1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake;
• INERTLY
  Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.
• INACTIVE
  Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive
• GRADUALITY
  The state of being gradual; gradualness. Sir T. Browne.
• INACTIVELY
  In an inactive manner. Locke.
• SLACKNESS
  The quality or state of being slack.
• INERTNESS
  1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke. 2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
• TARDY
  1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
• LINGERER
  One who lingers. Guardian.
• INERT
  1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay.
• LINGER
  To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. Gray. Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained.
• LINGERINGLY
  With delay; slowly; tediously.
• GRADUALLY
  1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.
• SLACKLY
  In a slack manner. Trench.
• UNREADY
  1. Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy. Dryden. Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast. Keble. 2. Not dressed; undressed.
• TEDIOUS
  Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome;
• SLUGGISH
  1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• UNSLACKED
  Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.
• BASTARDY
  1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.
• MALINGERER
  In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
• OVERTEDIOUS
  Too tedious.
• INDILATORY
  Not dilatory.