Thesaurus:delay
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: a period of time before an event occurs edit
Synonyms edit
- cunctation (obsolete)
- deferment [⇒ thesaurus]
- delay
- dilation (obsolete)
- hesitation
- hold-up
- holdoff
- postponement
- prorogation (now rare)
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Further reading edit
- “133. lateness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “delay” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.