STAYING Synonyms

• remaining in force or being carried on without letup

• persisting for a long time

• housing that someone is living in

• lasting a long time

• patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble

• the act of tarrying

• pertaining to living persons

• the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

• people who are still living

• the condition of living or the state of being alive

• the financial means whereby one lives

• true to life; lifelike

• (informal) absolute

• still in existence

• still in active use

• (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

• structures collectively in which people are housed

• the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily

• the act of lodging

• relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit

• not used up

• extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

• fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members

• the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch

• the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)

• being and remaining ready and available for use

• dwell

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• be present in

• exist or be situated within

• make one's home in a particular place or community

• live (in a certain place)

• be inherent or innate in

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

• spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

• having the characteristics of pitch or tar

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• leave slowly and hesitantly

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• continue in a place, position, or situation

• be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.

• stay behind

• dwell

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant