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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. procrastination

    Synonyms:
    dilatoriness, delay

    Antonyms:
    timeliness, punctuality, promptitude, alacrity

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. procrastination, cunctation, shillyshallynoun

    the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

    Synonyms:
    dilatoriness, cunctation, shillyshally

  2. dilatoriness, procrastinationnoun

    slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

    Synonyms:
    dilatoriness, cunctation, shillyshally

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 2 votes

  1. procrastinationnoun

    Synonyms:
    dilatoriness, putting off, delay, tardiness, slowness

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "procrastination":

    indecision, foot-dragging, delay, indecisiveness, hesitation, postponement, delaying

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#3446delay
#25748hesitation
#27159delaying
#37135procrastination
#42034postponement
#57467indecision
#191109indecisiveness

How to use procrastination in a sentence?

  1. Earl of Chesterfield:

    Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  2. Andrew Santella:

    Parental behavior at games is typically far more problematic than that of the kids, too often, An Overdue History of Procrastination's parents that model poor sportsmanship while coaches are working to teach the opposite.

  3. Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827:

    If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

  4. Vara Saripalli:

    Otherwise, we’ll just keep repeating things, the strategy you’re going to employ to beat procrastination is going to change based on the purpose procrastination is serving for you.

  5. Don Marquis:

    Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.


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