sit
sit around
kick about
knock about
kick around
bethrong
circumvent
talk over
in front of
bedwell
offhanded
bestand
bework
offhand
absentmindedly
inattentively
absently
abstractedly
waitingly
interesting
attendant
behove
peri-
lurk
attender
tender
import
consuming
around
laze
idle
stagnate
misoccupy
walk
hang
slug
accept
hitch one's wagon to
lie about
live with
hang about
meet
expose
acquaintance
get together
lie around
ingratiate
swallow
like cheese at fourpence
take
quietive
let
petty
sharp
while
ubiquitist
coax
single
wildness
hang out
go about
mindfulness
solitary
bank on
man of action
sit back
tolerant
amoristic
quiescent
get someone there
sit by
loiterer
reliable
take kindly to
answer to
lingerer
up to
focus
centre
candid
buttinsky
circum-
center
excusable
abound
pore
about
burst
concentrate
excuse
never-sweat
para-
rivet
condone
solitudinously
bristle
bebusy
offhanded
offhand
interesting
consuming
like cheese at fourpence
quietive
petty
sharp
single
solitary
tolerant
amoristic
quiescent
up to
candid
excusable
absentmindedly
inattentively
absently
abstractedly
waitingly
around
about
solitudinously
attendant
attender
tender
acquaintance
ubiquitist
wildness
mindfulness
man of action
loiterer
reliable
lingerer
buttinsky
never-sweat
sit
sit around
kick about
knock about
kick around
bethrong
circumvent
talk over
bedwell
bestand
bework
behove
lurk
import
laze
idle
stagnate
misoccupy
walk
hang
slug
accept
hitch one's wagon to
lie about
live with
hang about
meet
expose
get together
lie around
ingratiate
swallow
take
let
while
coax
hang out
go about
bank on
sit back
get someone there
sit by
take kindly to
answer to
focus
centre
center
abound
pore
burst
concentrate
excuse
rivet
condone
bristle
bebusy
verb
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside
- take a seat
- be in session
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be located or situated somewhere
- work or act as a baby-sitter
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- serve in a specific professional capacity
prefix
verb
- To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
- To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
- To remain unobserved.
- To remain concealed in order to ambush.
noun
noun
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
adj
- hurting
- young and immature
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
adj
verb
verb
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
noun
adv
- So as to surround or be near.
- Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people.
- So as to partially or completely rotate; so as to face in the opposite direction.
- From place to place.
- From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
- Nearly; approximately; about.
- So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.
- Used with certain verbs to suggest unproductive activity.
adj
prep
- Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).
- At or to various places within.
- Centred upon; surrounding.
- Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
- Near; in the vicinity of.
- Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
verb
noun
adj
adj
verb
- To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- To float, as if suspended.
- To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- To be or remain suspended.
- To veer in one direction.
- To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- To be vulnerable to capture.
- To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (used in maledictions) To damn.
- To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
noun
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- A grip, understanding.
- He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- The way in which something hangs.
verb
noun
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- an idle slothful person
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- consider or hold as true
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- admit into a group or community
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- be designed to hold or take
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
verb
verb
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- come together
- be adjacent or come together
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- collect in one place
- get to know; get acquainted with
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- experience as a reaction
- undergo or suffer
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
noun
adj
verb
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
noun
noun
- A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
- A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
- Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
- Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
verb
verb
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
- To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
- To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- To allow the release of (a fluid).
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
noun
adj
- Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
- Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
- Little or small in size.
- Having little or no importance.
- Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.
noun
adj
- Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- Higher in pitch than required.
- Intelligent.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- Illegal or dishonest.
- Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Tactical; risky.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Stylish or attractive.
- Sudden and intense.
- Observant; alert; acute.
verb
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
adv
- To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
- Exactly.
- In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
noun
- A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- Something that is sharp.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- A sharp tool or weapon.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
- A hypodermic syringe.
adj
- existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person
- used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals
- not married or related to the unmarried state
adj
- characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
- having uniform application
- not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
noun
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
verb
adj
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Performed, passed, or endured alone
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Single; individual; sole.
- gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- Not associated with others of the same kind.
noun
verb
- direct one's attention on something
- cause to converge on or toward a central point
- bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
- become focussed or come into focus
- put (an image) into focus
noun
- the concentration of attention or energy on something
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea
- a central point or locus of an infection in an organism
- special emphasis attached to something
- a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
- a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
verb
noun
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
prefix
verb
adj
noun
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- the middle of a military or naval formation
- (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- politically moderate persons; centrists
- (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
- the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
adj
adv
- all around or on all sides
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- in the area or vicinity
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
adj
verb
- be in a state of movement or action
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- burst outward, usually with noise
- move suddenly, energetically, or violently
- emerge suddenly
- cause to burst
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
noun
prefix
- around, surrounding
- avoiding or avoidant
- beside, alongside
- near
- abnormal
- resembling
- false
- In isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in opposite (1,4) positions (compare ortho- and meta-)
- disability sport
- adjacent, next to
- unrecognized, unauthorized, or unsanctioned
- across, through, throughout
- parachute.
- incorrect
- above, over
- between
- beyond
- opposite of, on the far side of
- related or pertaining to
- affecting or concerning lower body
verb
noun
English words for 'be around, often idly or without specific purpose'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "be around, often idly or without specific purpose". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
supernate
questioner
telephone pole
unexpected piece of good luck
multiprogramming
a jab.
to sit up
one good turn deserves another
two directions
it doesn't matter
to sunder.
plant louse
rigorism
internal trouble
unlisted
soft touch
electromagnetic compatibility
inquiry section
scrub
phosphatidylinositol
blastocoele
mercifulness
wheel
stomach medicine
overcast sky
without pay
takeoff
one turn
Fun
civil law
strenuously
mumps
last time
to reprimand.
to charm.
twitch
depot
universe
batting
cheap.
bully
astonishing
milestone
to decay
last resort
terminology
narcotic
weak point
insane
illustration