| Main Entry: | truancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexcused absence |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent without leave, cut*, cutting, hooky, skipping, truantry |
| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absenteeism, cut*, hooky, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
existence, presence |
| Main Entry: | absenteeism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
Synonyms: |
absence, defection, desertion, skipping, truancy |
Antonyms: |
attendance, presence |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
Synonyms: |
abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness, flight, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retirement, retreat, running out on, secession, tergiversation, treachery, truancy, withdrawal |
Antonyms: |
aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | idleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
Antonyms: |
action, ambition, busyness, diligence, employment, hustle, industry, labor, occupation, work |
| Main Entry: | absent without leave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent without permission |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absent from duty, desertion, hooky, truancy, unauthorized absence |
| Main Entry: | French leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abrupt departure |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent without leave, absenteeism, cut, hooky, secret departure, truancy, unannounced departure |
| Main Entry: | hooky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absenteeism, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy, truantry, vacancy |
| Main Entry: | inactivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, indolence, inertia, inertness, inoperativeness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inoperativeness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |