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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexcused absence |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, absent without leave, cut*, cutting, hooky, skipping, truantry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | absenteeism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
| Synonyms: | absence, defection, desertion, skipping, truancy |
| Antonyms: | attendance, presence |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness, flight, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retirement, retreat, running out on, secession, tergiversation, treachery, truancy, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | idleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Antonyms: | action, ambition, busyness, diligence, employment, hustle, industry, labor, occupation, work |
| Main Entry: | French leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abrupt departure |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, absent without leave, absenteeism, cut, hooky, secret departure, truancy, unannounced departure |
| Main Entry: | hooky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, French leave, absenteeism, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy, truantry, vacancy |
| Main Entry: | inactivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, indolence, inertia, inertness, inoperativeness, 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 to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
| Synonyms: | dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inoperativeness, 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 to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inoperativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
| Synonyms: | 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 to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
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