shillyshally
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
Types & categories
- holdup hypernym
Related & opposite
- stall derivation
Sense 2 verb
be uncertain and vague
Types & categories
- vacillate hypernym
Sense 3 verb
postpone doing what one should be doing
He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
Types & categories
- delay hypernym
- procrastinate hyponym
Related & opposite
- procrastination derivation
- stalling derivation
- lounger derivation
- procrastinator derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stall |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | holdup |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | vacillate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | procrastination |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | stalling |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lounger |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | procrastinator |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | delay |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | procrastinate |