LINGERINGS Synonyms

• lasting a long time

• patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble

• continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

• retained; not shed

• existing for a long time

• lasting a long time without change

• a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

• not used up

• retained; not shed

• never-ceasing

• continually recurring to the mind

• stubbornly unyielding

• not used up

• relating to or indicating a remainder

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing

• continuing or remaining in a place or state

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted

• a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)

• (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• stay put (in a certain place)

• dwell

• continue in a place, position, or situation

• remain behind

• stop or halt

• stay behind

• hang on during a trial of endurance

• stop a judicial process

• fasten with stays

• overcome or allay

• the act of tarrying