Dictionary Definition
lingering adj : continuing for a long time; "a
lingering sense of guilt" [syn: lingering(a)]
n : the act of tarrying [syn: tarriance]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
lingering- present participle of linger
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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