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Detailed Synonyms for tarry in English

tarry:

to tarry verb (tarries, tarried, tarrying)

  1. to tarry
    to hesitate; be indecised; to procrastinate; to question; to waver; to tarry; to vacillate; to put off
    • hesitate verb (hesitates, hesitated, hesitating)
    • procrastinate verb (procrastinates, procrastinated, procrastinating)
    • question verb (questions, questioned, questioning)
    • waver verb (wavers, wavered, wavering)
    • tarry verb (tarries, tarried, tarrying)
    • vacillate verb (vacillates, vacillated, vacillating)
    • put off verb (puts off, put off, putting off)
  2. to tarry
    to procrastinate; to dawdle; to linger; to retard; to saunter; to tarry; to delay; to put off
    • procrastinate verb (procrastinates, procrastinated, procrastinating)
    • dawdle verb (dawdles, dawdled, dawdling)
    • linger verb (lingers, lingered, lingering)
    • retard verb (retards, retarded, retarding)
    • saunter verb (saunters, sauntered, sauntering)
    • tarry verb (tarries, tarried, tarrying)
    • delay verb (delaies, delayed, delaying)
    • put off verb (puts off, put off, putting off)
  3. to tarry
    to linger; to dawdle; to tarry; to loiter; to waffle
    • linger verb (lingers, lingered, lingering)
    • dawdle verb (dawdles, dawdled, dawdling)
    • tarry verb (tarries, tarried, tarrying)
    • loiter verb (loiters, loitered, loitering)
    • waffle verb (waffles, waffled, waffling)
  4. to tarry
    to hesitate; to doubt; to linger; to waver; to delay; to defer; to brood over; to tarry; to deter
    • hesitate verb (hesitates, hesitated, hesitating)
    • doubt verb (doubts, doubted, doubting)
    • linger verb (lingers, lingered, lingering)
    • waver verb (wavers, wavered, wavering)
    • delay verb (delaies, delayed, delaying)
    • defer verb (defers, deferred, deferring)
    • brood over verb (broods over, brooded over, brooding over)
    • tarry verb (tarries, tarried, tarrying)
    • deter verb (deters, deterred, deterring)
  5. to tarry
    – leave slowly and hesitantly 1
    to linger; to tarry
    – leave slowly and hesitantly 1
    • linger verb (lingers, lingered, lingering)
    • tarry verb (tarries, tarried, tarrying)

Conjugations for tarry:

present
  1. tarry
  2. tarry
  3. tarries
  4. tarry
  5. tarry
  6. tarry
simple past
  1. tarried
  2. tarried
  3. tarried
  4. tarried
  5. tarried
  6. tarried
present perfect
  1. have tarried
  2. have tarried
  3. has tarried
  4. have tarried
  5. have tarried
  6. have tarried
past continuous
  1. was tarrying
  2. were tarrying
  3. was tarrying
  4. were tarrying
  5. were tarrying
  6. were tarrying
future
  1. shall tarry
  2. will tarry
  3. will tarry
  4. shall tarry
  5. will tarry
  6. will tarry
continuous present
  1. am tarrying
  2. are tarrying
  3. is tarrying
  4. are tarrying
  5. are tarrying
  6. are tarrying
subjunctive
  1. be tarried
  2. be tarried
  3. be tarried
  4. be tarried
  5. be tarried
  6. be tarried
diverse
  1. tarry!
  2. let's tarry!
  3. tarried
  4. tarrying
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they

tarry adj

  1. tarry
  2. tarry
    – having the characteristics of pitch or tar 1
    tarry; resinous; resiny; pitchy
    – having the characteristics of pitch or tar 1

Related Words for "tarry":

  • tarrying, tarrier, tarriest

Alternate Synonyms for "tarry":


Related Definitions for "tarry":

  1. having the characteristics of pitch or tar1
  2. leave slowly and hesitantly1