Antonyms for tarry
ˈtɑr itar·ry

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1. tarry2

   Resembling tar.

   Synonyms:
   pitchy

2. tarry2

   Covered with tar.

   Synonyms:
   pitchy, bituminize

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1. tarry

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tolerate, wait, watch

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

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1. tarry

   Antonyms:
   press, push, speed, haste, proceed

   Synonyms:
   rest, abide, halt, await, flag, lag, continue, remain, sojourn, delay, stop, stay, loiter, linger

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1. pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarryverb

   having the characteristics of pitch or tar

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive

   Synonyms:
   sooty, jet-black, resinous, jet, resiny, pitchy, coal-black

2. loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill aroundverb

   be about

   "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive

   Synonyms:
   loll around, loaf, bushwhack, bum about, hover, arse about, lounge around, mill around, frig around, arse around, mess about, lurk, bum around, lounge, waylay, loiter, loll, mill about, bum, mill, hang around, lollygag, skulk, lallygag, footle, ambuscade, linger, lie in wait, scupper, ambush, lounge about, dawdle, waste one's time

3. tarry, lingerverb

   leave slowly and hesitantly

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive

   Synonyms:
   lurk, lallygag, footle, linger, mess about, lollygag, loiter, lounge, mill about, hover, dawdle, loaf, mill around, hang around

How to use tarry in a sentence?

1. Gavin Naylor:

   When people are paddling on their board, the soles of their feet catch the light and very quickly, in exactly the same way the scales on a mullet or a menhaden might catch the light, and when you’re a predator, you don’t tarry. You have to be quick and make a quick decision.

2. Burton:

   It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece.

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