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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lingering \Lin"ger*ing\, adjective
1. Delaying.
2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.
To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. --Rambler.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Linger \Lin"ger\ (l[i^][ng]"g[~e]r), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lingered} (l[i^][ng]"g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lingering}.] [OE. lengen to tarry, AS. lengan to prolong, put off, fr. lang long. [root]125. See {Long}, adjective] To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. --Gray.
Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained. --Milton.
Syn: To loiter; lag; saunter; delay; tarry; stop; hesitate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lingering
adjective: continuing for a long time; "a lingering sense of guilt" [syn: {lingering(a)}]
noun: the act of tarrying [syn: {tarriance}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "lingering": Micawberish, backward, booming, continuation, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, drawn-out, easygoing, echoic, echoing, extended, extension, foot-dragging, goofing off, gradual, growling, idling, interminable, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging, languishing, lasting, lax, lazing, lazy, lengthened, lengthening, loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, lounging, marathon, mopery, overlong, persistent, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, prolongation, prolonged, protracted, protraction, reboant, rebounding, reechoing, remaining, remiss, repercussive, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, sounding, spun-out, stretched-out, tarriance, tarrying, thundering, trifling, undamped, waiting
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