STALLING Synonyms

• marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner

• lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

• having no employment

• the act of tarrying

• stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate

• behave carelessly or indifferently

• waste time

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• consider not very seriously

• time during which some action is awaited

• the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

• cause to be slowed down or delayed

• act later than planned, scheduled, or required

• stop or halt

• slow the growth or development of

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

• postpone doing what one should be doing

• postpone or delay needlessly

• a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time

• small room in which a monk or nun lives

• small individual study area in a library

• small area set off by walls for special use

• a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

• United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)

• small area set off by walls for special use

• a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment

• small individual study area in a library

• French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)

• small individual study area in a library

• informal term for the nose

• come to a stop

• hit, especially on the head

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

• postpone doing what one should be doing

• postpone doing what one should be doing