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delay - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | delay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferment, interruption |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, bind, check, detention, downtime*, filibuster, hindrance, holding pattern, impediment, interval, jam, lag, moratorium, obstruction, postponement, problem, remission, reprieve, setback, stall, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, suspension, wait, cooling-off period, cunctation, dawdling, demurral, discontinuation, hangup, hold-up, holding, lingering, logjam, loitering, procrastination, prorogation, putting off, retardation, retardment, showstopper, tarrying, tie-up |
| Notes: | various things may cause a delay, but a postponement will result from the action of a person |
| Antonyms: | advance, dispatch, expedition, furtherance, hurry, rush, speed, hastening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause stop in action |
| Synonyms: | adjourn, arrest, bar, block, check, choke, clog, confine, curb, dawdle, defer, detain, deter, dilly-dally*, discourage, drag, encumber, filibuster, hamper, hold, impede, inhibit, interfere, keep, lag, linger, loiter, obstruct, postpone, prevent, procrastinate, prolong, protract, put off, repress, restrict, retard, shelve, slacken, stall, stave off, stay, suspend, table, tarry, temporize, withhold, bide time, gain time, hold over, intermit, keep back, lay over, prorogue, remand |
| Antonyms: | advance, dispatch, expedite, further, hasten, hurry, rush, speed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adjourn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop a proceeding |
| Synonyms: | curb, defer, delay, discontinue, hold up, postpone, put off, recess, restrain, shelve, stay, suspend, hold off, hold over, prorogue |
| Antonyms: | begin, convene, convoke, encourage, further, open, rally, stimulate, urge, keep on |
| Main Entry: | avoidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eluding; preventing |
| Synonyms: | delay, departure, dodge, escape, evasion, flight, forbearance, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, absention, circumvention, dodging, elusion, escapism, eschewal, nonparticipation, shirking, shunning, steering clear of |
| Antonyms: | meeting |
| Main Entry: | bog down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stick; become stuck |
| Synonyms: | decelerate, delay, detain, halt, impede, retard, set back, sink, slacken, stall, hang up, slow down, slow up |
| Main Entry: | deferment/deferral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | postponement |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, delay, holdover*, moratorium, pause, stay, suspension, putting off |
| Antonyms: | advance, expedition, forging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold, keep back; arrest |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, bog down*, bust*, check, confine, constrain, decelerate, delay, hinder, hold up*, ice*, impede, inhibit, intern, jail, mire, nab*, pick up, pinch*, pull in*, put away*, reserve, restrain, retard, run in, set back, withhold, buttonhole*, hang up*, send up, slow down, slow up |
| Antonyms: | free, liberate, release, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, imprisonment |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, arrest, bust*, custody, delay, hindrance, impediment, incarceration, nab, pen*, pickup, pinch*, quarantine, restraint, retention, withholding, arrestation, detainment, holding back, holding pen, immurement, internment, keeping in, time up the river |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dilly-dally |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | waste time |
| Synonyms: | dawdle, delay, hem and haw*, hesitate, linger, loiter, meander, mosey, procrastinate, vacillate, move slowly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enlargement, continuation |
| Synonyms: | addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, expansion, extent, increase, orbit, postponement, production, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, stretch, supplement, sweep, wing, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, lengthening, prolongation, protraction, purview, spreading out, stretching, widening |
| Antonyms: | abbreviation, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, decrease, reduction, shortening |
| Main Entry: | filibuster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction of progress, especially in verbal argument |
| Synonyms: | delay, hindrance, interference, opposition, postponement, holding the floor, procrastination, stonewalling, talkathon |
| Antonyms: | catalyst, impetus, incentive, progression |
| Main Entry: | hesitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wait; be uncertain |
| Synonyms: | alternate, balance, balk, blow hot and cold*, dally, debate, defer, delay, demur, dillydally*, dither, doubt, equivocate, falter, flounder, fluctuate, fumble, hang*, hang back, hedge, hem and haw*, hold back, hover, linger, oscillate, pause, ponder, pussyfoot*, scruple, seesaw*, shift, shrink, stammer, stop, straddle, stumble, stutter, swerve, tergiversate, vacillate, waffle*, waver, weigh, be irresolute, be reluctant, be unwilling, hold off, pull back, shy away, sit on fence, think about, think twice |
| Antonyms: | attack, carry on, continue, go, go ahead, persevere, resolve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | delay, delaying, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, fluctuation, hesitancy, indecision, indisposition, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, vacillation, wavering, averseness, dawdling, demurral, faltering, fumbling, hemming and hawing, indecisiveness, irresolution, procrastination, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | hinder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prevent, slow down |
| Synonyms: | arrest, balk, bar, block, bottleneck, burden, check, choke, clog, contravene, counteract, cramp, crimp, cripple, curb, debar, delay, deter, encumber, fetter, frustrate, hamper, hamstring*, handicap, hold back, hold up, impede, inhibit, interfere, interrupt, muzzle, neutralize, obstruct, offset, oppose, preclude, prohibit, resist, retard, shut out, snafu*, stay, stop, stymie*, terminate, thwart, trammel, box in, crab, get in the way, hog-tie, louse up |
| Antonyms: | advance, aid, allow, assist, encourage, facilitate, forward, further, help, permit, promote, push |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | problem, difficulty |
| Synonyms: | block, bug*, catch, check, delay, discontinuance, drawback, glitch*, hang-up, hindrance, impediment, interruption, joker, mishap, snafu*, snag, stoppage, stumbling block, tangle, trouble, hold-up |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, chance, opening, opportunity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hold back/hold off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repress |
| Synonyms: | bit, bridle, check, control, curb, defer, delay, deny, forbear, inhibit, keep, postpone, prevent, put off, refrain, refuse, restrain, stop, suppress, withhold, hold down, hold in, keep back, keep out |
| Antonyms: | reveal, let go |
| Main Entry: | impede |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | obstruct, hinder |
| Synonyms: | bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off, cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit, disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze, flag one, freeze, hamper, hang up, hold up, interfere, oppose, rattle, restrain, retard, saddle with, shut down, shut off, slow, slow down, stonewall*, stop, stymie, thwart |
| Antonyms: | advance, aid, assist, facilitate, forward, help, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impediment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, hindrance |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bottleneck*, burden, catch*, chain, check, clog, cramp, curb, defect, delay, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, encumbrance, fault, flaw, handicap, hazard, hitch, holdup, hurdle, inhibition, load, manacle, millstone*, obstacle, prohibition, red tape*, restraint, restriction, road block*, rub*, setback, shackle, snag, stoppage, stricture, stumbling block*, tie, trammel, wall, blockage, dead weight, retardation, retardment |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, furtherance, help, support, facilitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interlude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, break |
| Synonyms: | breathing space*, delay, episode, halt, hiatus, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, lull, meantime, meanwhile, recess, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, wait, idyll, interregnum, parenthesis |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interrupt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, interfere |
| Synonyms: | arrest, barge in, break, break in, break off, butt in*, check, come between, crash, cut, cut off*, cut short*, defer, delay, disconnect, discontinue, disjoin, disturb, disunite, divide, halt, heckle, hinder, hold up, horn in, impede, infringe, inject, insinuate, intrude, obstruct, prevent, punctuate, separate, sever, stay, stop, suspend, break train of thought, bust in, chime in*, crowd in, cut in on, edge in, get in the way, in, lay aside, put in, shortstop, work in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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