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await bide attend stay tarry ambush hold on lurk hang on expect ambuscade serve abide waylay hold watch impatient hang lackey tend cabstand sit waiting bide one's time thole patient skulk lounge look forward to outwait town wait help queue hold one's horses hang around (or round or British about) pause defer impatience rank delay listen hold one's breath stand man esquire at last finally waiting room patience taxi rank sweat it out soft belay cabin boy sit tight W8 insidious
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wait up gallant cool hold tight lite hove airport lie in wait stick around antechamber yield standby departure lounge Low hold out for sth bushwhack page lay see hunker wait and see waited keep loiter lurcher heel mistress bus shelter wait/just a minute stick just a minute/moment/second bide your time squire holdback block hover wait–awhile suffer trap wait your turn leave gape hold-up hesitate hold hard hesitant transit lounge remand centre hang around (somewhere) anteroom holdout scupper hang tight make sb sweat anticipate wonder gallivant platform tent ant-lion count the hours dugout doorstep hold it just a moment weary sleep on it sat bode have/keep your options open stance lay-by forlay shepherd traffic island keep your options open it is only a matter of time sitting hang/hold fire nurse remain wait sth out depend table and a stitch in time (saves nine) kick your heels wait a minute/second just a minute/second/moment hold back on sth hold it! wait a minute/moment/second wait out someone or something housemaid stop breath waitstaff lochetic cool one's heels stage linger hold off counterwait long hold your horses taihoa sweat out insidiate live for bear with sb still–hunt wait on bit instant servitor payday queuing theory honeymoon give light wait/just a moment sit back death row grassation open mind forelay accompany just a minute (or moment, or second, etc.) wait-a-bit shop loiter with intent lose patience remand (someone) on bail run out of patience fire station gall stall leave (someone) dangling apron mark wait in eavesdrop wait on sth sweat sth out tell keep vigil meet hold/hang on a minute stake out lie in wait (for someone) cool your heels just procrastinate resign hold sth over hold/hang on a moment sit something out hold out champ at the bit tread water reception committee hang back lady–in–waiting let the grass grow under one's feet put off prevail all in good time be champing at the bit count the days/hours/minutes etc prolong the agony antsy lady-in-waiting minister pavilion waiter waiting game sedentary this be dying for something/to do something pending waitress see sth out (there’s) no time like the present stop sign hand wait on/upon hyperbole export credit option leave/keep one's options open New Zealand bramble surgery the bench wait around last open sleep on not so fast suspended animation find out/see how the land lies judgment we'll see ants in one's pants gain time back up Sedentariae starting line saltigradae the wings shoe time hourglass nonblocking dig in sit sth out prolonged dissipate bollard count down be/take long bail crab spider eager expectant fascinating catch your breath Valkyrie foyer backed up warm up over bad footman servifor tradition time is on one's side rest pass-shooting bail out deferment hunter offer hang on/hold on a minute vigil aftershock cafeteria in the way limbo battue in the fullness of time call waiting monsoon forbearance ravine latency occupied partner in crime pardon urge cogitation reveal outwear backstage heal pan out eagerly EGM acrophobia aught crowded transfuse real time-out license person matriarchy launder pay slug solo supposedly law laws in the lurch precariousness Beatty citation line immediate event safety zone maitre d'hotel nebbish newsstand overture adventurous dry unanticipated remand undue jumpy trauma astonish revulsion luggage rule against perpetuities till bate cocky eventual pannier enthusiastic cliffhanger devotion discount spurned temporize transport banish bureaucracy however moldy pen validation sleep sommelier splosh permanent domination future tense abiding advisable boy busy customary excitement prone accursed afford clamp dinner effectual in vain noted weather exciting done look forward on the job rationing accessibility suspended low-priced enthusiastically add ambiance bench coveted intentional inclusion half-hearted plead tattoo identification quarantine mood disembark signal

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Words For "wait"

As you've probably noticed, words for "wait" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "wait" are: await, bide, attend, stay, and tarry. There are 420 other words that are related to or similar to wait listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "wait" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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