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pro·cras·ti·nate
 procrastinate
- pronunciation:
- pr
krae
stih
neIt
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
procrastinated, procrastinates, procrastinating |
| definition: |
to put off taking an action or doing a task; delay.
- synonyms:
- delay
- similar words:
- dally, dawdle, defer, dilly-dally, idle, linger, loiter, shirk, stall, tarry, temporize, twiddle one's thumbs, wait
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| related words: |
hang, hesitate |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition: |
to put off (an action, decision, or the like) needlessly; postpone.
- synonyms:
- delay, postpone
- similar words:
- defer, prorogue, put aside, shelve, table
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| related words: |
slack, suspend, wait |
| derivations: |
procrastinative (adj.), procrastinatory (adj.), procrastination (n.), procrastinator (n.) |
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