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time to kill
noun as in downtime
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- 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-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
Example Sentences
Unfortunately, there will be no easy answers, just ideological factions with knives out, grievances to air, and plenty of time to kill.
In the summertime, the balmy Bronx streets would be filled with kids hanging out on their blocks with time to kill and limited means.
After hearing I was a computer scientist, a professor at a university I was visiting immediately asked: “So, can your algorithms tell me the best time to kill myself?”
In February 2021, she invited her mailing list to a webinar on the value — or not — of a fine arts degree, titled “Is It Time to Kill the M.F.A.?”
But a video — taken by his son just minutes before he and his mother’s cellphones were never used again — showed Alex Murdaugh was with them and prosecutors convinced a jury that Murdaugh had enough time to kill them, clean up evidence and get to his mother’s house and back.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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