'Delaying' definitions:
Definition of 'Delaying'
From: GCIDE
- Delay \De*lay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Delaying.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d['e]lai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See Delay, n., and cf. Delate, 1st Defer, Dilate.]
- 1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. [1913 Webster]
- My lord delayeth his coming. --Matt. xxiv. 48. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. [1913 Webster]
- Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The watery showers delay the raging wind. --Surrey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'delaying'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- backward,
- dallying,
- dawdling,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- dragging,
- easygoing,
- foot-dragging,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- lax,
- lazy,
- lingering,
- loitering,
- lollygagging,
- Micawberish,
- procrastinating,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- remiss,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- tarrying