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obtrusive

Flag: gbEnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionary
t'> to spend time doing nothing //instead of going out tonight, let's stay in and chill
Synonyms
bumming dallying dawdling dillydallying droning footling goofing (off) hacking (around) hanging about [British] hanging (around or out) idling kicking around kicking back lazing lazying loafing lolling lounging vegging out
Related Words
fiddling (around) fooling messing monkeying mucking piddling playing pottering (around) puttering (around) trifling
dozing estivating (or aestivating) hibernating
lagging lingering loitering poking relaxing resting tarrying
ambling moseying sauntering strolling swanning
furloughing goldbricking malingering truanting
Synonymous Phrases
killing time twiddling one's thumbs
Near Antonyms
drudging grinding grubbing humping hustling laboring moiling pegging plodding plowing plugging slaving sweating toiling travailing working
applying buckling (down)
exerting putting out
choir
noun
ˈkwī(-ə)r

Definition (Entry 1 of 2)

  • an organized company of singers (as in a church service) //… greeted by a large male choir wearing red bowties and singing carols. — New Yorker
  • a group of instruments of the same class //a brass choir
  • an organized group of persons or things //… travels with a suite of assistants and a choir of publicists. — L. R. Lapham
  • a division of angels
  • the part of a church occupied by the singers or by the clergy
    also the part of a church where the services are performed
  • a group organized for ensemble speaking
choir
noun
ˈkwī(-ə)r

Definition (Entry 1 of 2)

  • an organized company of singers (as in a church service) //… greeted by a large male choir wearing red bowties and singing carols. — New Yorker
  • a group of instruments of the same class //a brass choir
  • an organized group of persons or things //… travels with a suite of assistants and a choir of publicists. — L. R. Lapham
  • a division of angels
  • the part of a church occupied by the singers or by the clergy
    also the part of a church where the services are performed
  • a group organized for ensemble speaking
choir
noun
ˈkwī(-ə)r

Definition (Entry 1 of 2)

  • an organized company of singers (as in a church service) //… greeted by a large male choir wearing red bowties and singing carols. — New Yorker
  • a group of instruments of the same class //a brass choir
  • an organized group of persons or things //… travels with a suite of assistants and a choir of publicists. — L. R. Lapham
  • a division of angels
  • the part of a church occupied by the singers or by the clergy
    also the part of a church where the services are performed
  • a group organized for ensemble speaking
choir
noun
ˈkwī(-ə)r

Definition (Entry 1 of 2)

  • an organized company of singers (as in a church service) //… greeted by a large male choir wearing red bowties and singing carols. — New Yorker
  • a group of instruments of the same class //a brass choir
  • an organized group of persons or things //… travels with a suite of assistants and a choir of publicists. — L. R. Lapham
  • a division of angels
  • the part of a church occupied by the singers or by the clergy
    also the part of a church where the services are performed
  • a group organized for ensemble speaking
verb
choired; choir​ing; choirs

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