dais

The word “dais” has 1 syllable: dais

It's pronounced as /deɪs/


What is synonym and antonym for dais?

In the thesaurus, “dais” has 19 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for dais along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dais

  • altar
  • balcony
  • bench
  • bima
  • bimah
  • footpace
  • gallery
  • platform
  • podium
  • pulpit
  • riser
  • rostrum
  • scaffold
  • seat
  • stage
  • stand
  • table
  • terrace
  • tribune

Meanings of dais

  • noun
    1. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
    2. A bench, a settle, a pew.
    3. An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.
    4. The canopy over an altar, etc.

Example Sentences

  • The speaker approached the dais to address the audience gathered in the hall.
  • At the ceremony, the newlyweds stood on the elevated dais for the first dance.
  • The awards were presented on the ornate dais adorned with flowers and banners.
  • The teacher stood on the classroom dais to better engage with the students.
  • The monarch ascended the royal dais to address the court and subjects.

On this page you'll find 19 synonyms or another words to dais, such as: altar, balcony, bench, bima, bimah, footpace, gallery.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

dallying

  • aestivating
  • ambling
  • amorous
  • amusing
  • apathetic
  • apathy
  • arch
  • asleep on the job
  • backward
  • behindhand
  • bumming
  • careless
  • cavorting
  • chilling
  • comatose
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • coquetting
  • coquettish
  • courting
  • coy
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dabbling
  • dalliance
  • dawdling
  • decelerating
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • delighting
  • diddling
  • dilatory
  • dillydallying
  • directionless
  • disporting
  • diverting
  • dozing
  • dragging
  • droning
  • dropping behind
  • drowsy
  • dull
  • easing
  • entertaining
  • enticing
  • estivating
  • falling behind
  • filibustering
  • flagging
  • flightiness
  • flippancy
  • flirting
  • flirty
  • flummery
  • folly
  • fooling
  • fooling around
  • footling
  • fribble
  • frippery
  • frisking
  • frisky
  • frivoling
  • frivolling
  • frivolousness
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • furloughing
  • futile
  • gaiety
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • game
  • giddiness
  • goldbricking
  • good-for-nothing
  • hanging
  • hanging about
  • hanging fire
  • heavy-footed
  • hibernating
  • idle
  • idleness
  • idling
  • inactive
  • inattentive
  • inching
  • incompetent
  • indifferent
  • indolence
  • indolent
  • inert
  • inertia
  • jest
  • jesting
  • joking
  • joshing
  • kicking around
  • kicking back
  • kidding
  • killing time
  • kittenish
  • lackadaisical
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • lallygagging
  • languid
  • languor
  • languorous
  • lassitude
  • late
  • lax
  • laziness
  • lazing
  • lazy
  • lazying
  • leading on
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • lethargy
  • levity
  • libidinous
  • lifeless
  • lightheartedness
  • lightness
  • lingering
  • listless
  • listlessness
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • lollygagging
  • lounging
  • lumbering
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • marking time
  • mashing
  • measured
  • messing
  • messing around
  • monkeying
  • moping
  • moratory
  • moseying
  • mucking
  • neglectful
  • negligent
  • nonsense
  • out of it
  • passive
  • piddling
  • play
  • playing
  • pleasing
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • procrastinating
  • puerility
  • putting off
  • putting on
  • rambling
  • razzing
  • recreating
  • relaxing
  • remiss
  • resting
  • ribbing
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • sauntering
  • screwing around
  • shallowness
  • shiftless
  • shiftlessness
  • shilly-shallying
  • shuffling
  • skylarking
  • slack
  • sleepy
  • sloth
  • slothful
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slow-moving
  • slowing
  • sluggish
  • sluggishness
  • snail-like
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • snoozy
  • somnolent
  • spoony
  • sport
  • sporting
  • sportive
  • staggering
  • stalling
  • stringing along
  • strolling
  • superficiality
  • supine
  • supineness
  • swanning
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • teasing
  • temporizing
  • time-wasting
  • tired
  • torpid
  • toying
  • trifling
  • triviality
  • truanting
  • unambitious
  • unconcerned
  • unenergetic
  • unhasty
  • unhurried
  • unindustrious
  • unmotivated
  • unpersevering
  • unready
  • vamping
  • vegging out
  • volatility
  • weary
  • whimsicality
  • whimsy
  • wooing
  • worthless

dandies

  • Beau Brummells
  • beaus
  • beauties
  • beauts
  • beaux
  • blades
  • bucks
  • catches
  • cavaliers
  • clotheshorses
  • corkers
  • coxcombs
  • crackajacks
  • crackerjacks
  • crown jewels
  • daisies
  • dashers
  • diamonds
  • dillies
  • doozers
  • doozies
  • dreams
  • dudes
  • exquisites
  • fancy Dans
  • fops
  • gallants
  • gems
  • honeys
  • hot stuff
  • humdingers
  • hummers
  • imperials
  • jays
  • jewels
  • jim-dandies
  • knockouts
  • lollapaloozas
  • lounge lizards
  • lulus
  • macaronis
  • marvels
  • nifties
  • peaches
  • pearls
  • phenomena
  • phenomenons
  • pippins
  • pips
  • plums
  • popinjays
  • pretty boys
  • prodigies
  • rippers
  • ripsnorters
  • sensations
  • snorters
  • sockdolagers
  • sockdologers
  • standouts
  • sweethearts
  • swells
  • treasures
  • wonders

dandy

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Beau Brummel
  • Beau Brummell
  • OK
  • acceptable
  • adequate
  • all right
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • beau
  • beaut
  • beautiful
  • beauty
  • better
  • blade
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brave
  • buck
  • bully
  • bumper
  • capital
  • catch
  • cavalier
  • choice
  • classic
  • classical
  • clotheshorse
  • cool
  • corker
  • corking
  • coxcomb
  • crackajack
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crown jewel
  • daisy
  • dasher
  • decent
  • diamond
  • dilly
  • divine
  • doozer
  • doozie
  • doozy
  • dope
  • down
  • dream
  • dude
  • dynamite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • exemplary
  • exquisite
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fancy Dan
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fashion plate
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • fly
  • fop
  • four-star
  • frontline
  • gallant
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gem
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glorious
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • groovy
  • heavenly
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • honey
  • hot
  • hot stuff
  • humdinger
  • hummer
  • hunky-dory
  • hype
  • immense
  • imperial
  • jay
  • jewel
  • jim-dandy
  • keen
  • knockout
  • lollapalooza
  • lounge lizard
  • lovely
  • lulu
  • macaroni
  • marvel
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mean
  • model
  • neat
  • nifty
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peach
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • peacock
  • pearl
  • phat
  • phenomenon
  • pip
  • pippin
  • plum
  • popinjay
  • premium
  • pretty boy
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • prodigy
  • quality
  • radical
  • righteous
  • ripper
  • ripsnorter
  • satisfactory
  • select
  • sensation
  • sensational
  • slick
  • snorter
  • sockdolager
  • sockdologer
  • something else
  • special
  • splendid
  • standard
  • standout
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • sweetheart
  • swell
  • terrific
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • treasure
  • unsurpassed
  • wizard
  • wonder
  • wonderful

dawdling

  • adjournment
  • aestivating
  • afraid
  • ambling
  • apathetic
  • averse
  • averseness
  • backward
  • behind
  • behindhand
  • belated
  • bind
  • bit-by-bit
  • bumming
  • check
  • chilling
  • cooling-off period
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • cunctation
  • dallying
  • decelerating
  • delay
  • delayed
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • delinquent
  • demurral
  • detained
  • detainment
  • detention
  • diddling
  • diffident
  • dilatory
  • dilly-dallying
  • dillydallying
  • discontinuation
  • disinclined
  • dormancy
  • doubt
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • downtime
  • dozing
  • dragging
  • dreamy
  • droning
  • dropping behind
  • drowsy
  • dubiety
  • easing
  • easy
  • equivocation
  • estivating
  • falling behind
  • faltering
  • filibuster
  • filibustering
  • fluctuation
  • fooling
  • fooling around
  • footling
  • fumbling
  • furloughing
  • goldbricking
  • goof-off time
  • gradual
  • half-hearted
  • halting
  • hanging about
  • hanging back
  • hanging fire
  • hangup
  • heavy
  • heavy-footed
  • held up
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitancy
  • hesitating
  • hibernating
  • hibernation
  • hindrance
  • holding
  • holding pattern
  • holdup
  • hung up
  • idle
  • idleness
  • idling
  • impediment
  • imperceptible
  • in a bind
  • inactive
  • inactivity
  • inching
  • indecision
  • indecisive
  • indecisiveness
  • indisposition
  • indolence
  • indolent
  • inert
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • inoperativeness
  • interval
  • irresolute
  • irresoluteness
  • irresolution
  • jam
  • jammed
  • joblessness
  • kicking around
  • kicking back
  • killing time
  • lackadaisical
  • lacking confidence
  • lag
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • lallygagging
  • languid
  • laze
  • lazing
  • lazy
  • lazying
  • leaden
  • leisure
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • lethargy
  • lingering
  • listless
  • loafing
  • loath
  • logjam
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • lollygagging
  • lounging
  • lumbering
  • malingering
  • marking time
  • measured
  • messing
  • messing around
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • moderate
  • monkeying
  • moping
  • moratorium
  • moseying
  • mucking
  • negligent
  • not arrived
  • not done
  • obstruction
  • oscillation
  • otiosity
  • overdue
  • own sweet time
  • passive
  • pause
  • pendulous
  • phlegmatic
  • piddling
  • playing
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • postponement
  • postponing
  • pottering
  • problem
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • prorogation
  • putting off
  • qualm
  • quiet
  • relaxing
  • reluctance
  • reluctant
  • remiss
  • remission
  • reprieve
  • resting
  • retardation
  • retardment
  • sauntering
  • scruple
  • setback
  • shiftlessness
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • showstopper
  • shuffling
  • shy
  • skeptical
  • skepticism
  • slack
  • sleepy
  • sloth
  • slothful
  • slothfulness
  • slouch
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slow-going
  • slow-moving
  • slow-paced
  • slowing
  • slowness
  • sluggish
  • sluggishness
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • staggering
  • stagnant
  • stagnation
  • stall
  • stalling
  • stammering
  • stay
  • stop
  • stoppage
  • strapped for time
  • strolling
  • stumbling
  • stupor
  • stuttering
  • supine
  • surcease
  • suspension
  • swanning
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • temporizing
  • tentative
  • tentativeness
  • tie up
  • time to burn
  • time to kill
  • time-wasting
  • timid
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • to and fro
  • too late
  • torpid
  • torpidity
  • torpor
  • tortoiselike
  • trifling
  • truancy
  • truanting
  • uneager
  • unemployment
  • unhurried
  • unpredictable
  • unpunctual
  • unsure
  • unwilling
  • unwillingness
  • vacillant
  • vacillating
  • vacillation
  • vacillatory
  • vegetating
  • vegging out
  • wait
  • wavering

dead

  • abeyant
  • absolute
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • all
  • all in
  • all of
  • all over
  • all the way
  • all-out
  • altogether
  • anesthetized
  • antiquated
  • apathetic
  • arid
  • arrant
  • arrested
  • as the crow flies
  • asleep
  • at length
  • at rest
  • authentic
  • aweary
  • baked
  • baleful
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • basically
  • beat
  • beaten
  • benumbed
  • bereft of life
  • bitten the dust
  • bland
  • blank
  • bleak
  • bleary
  • bloodless
  • blooming
  • blunted
  • bodacious
  • boney
  • bony
  • boring
  • bought the farm
  • breathless
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • buried
  • burned-out
  • burnt-out
  • bushed
  • by and large
  • bygone
  • bypast
  • cadaverous
  • callous
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • categorically
  • checked out
  • chiefly
  • chilled
  • classic
  • clean
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • collapsed
  • comatose
  • complete
  • completely
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consumed
  • consummate
  • copiously
  • crashing
  • cut off
  • damn
  • damned
  • dated
  • deadened
  • deadly
  • deadness
  • death
  • deathly
  • debilitated
  • deceased
  • definite
  • defunct
  • dehydrated
  • demised
  • departed
  • depleted
  • desert
  • desolate
  • dilute
  • diminished
  • direct
  • directly
  • done
  • done for
  • doomed
  • dormant
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • downright
  • drained
  • dreadful
  • dried-up
  • droughty
  • drowsy
  • drugged
  • dry
  • due
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dying
  • endangered
  • endless
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • enough
  • entire
  • entirely
  • erased
  • eternal
  • even
  • exactly
  • exhausted
  • expended
  • expired
  • extinct
  • extraordinary
  • extreme
  • faded
  • fading
  • fair
  • fallen
  • fallow
  • fast
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fatigued
  • fell
  • finished
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flavorless
  • for fair
  • free
  • frightful
  • frigid
  • full
  • fully
  • generally
  • generously
  • genuine
  • ghostlike
  • ghostly
  • gone
  • gone to meet maker
  • gone to reward
  • grave
  • greatly
  • habitual
  • hands down
  • hardscrabble
  • heartily
  • heavy
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • idle
  • imperiled
  • imperilled
  • impoverished
  • in whole
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • infertile
  • inhospitable
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insipid
  • interrupted
  • inveterate
  • jaded
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • killer
  • knackered
  • lapsed
  • largely
  • late
  • latent
  • lessened
  • lethal
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • lifelessness
  • limp
  • liquidated
  • loggy
  • logy
  • lost
  • low
  • macabre
  • main
  • mainly
  • missing
  • more or less
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • mortality
  • mortuary
  • mostly
  • murderous
  • nipped
  • no more
  • nonexistent
  • nonextant
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonliving
  • not existing
  • nothingness
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obsolete
  • obtunded
  • off
  • offed
  • on the shelf
  • out
  • out of commission
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • overall
  • overfatigued
  • overtaxed
  • overthrown
  • overworked
  • parched
  • passed away
  • perfect
  • perfectly
  • perished
  • perpetual
  • pestilent
  • phantom
  • plain
  • played out
  • plumb
  • plump
  • pooped
  • poor
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profound
  • prostrate
  • pure
  • pushing up daisies
  • quiescent
  • quite
  • rainless
  • rank
  • real
  • reduced
  • regular
  • reposing
  • resting in peace
  • right
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • sapped
  • savorless
  • sear
  • senseless
  • sere
  • sheer
  • simple
  • sleep
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • sluggish
  • soundly
  • spectral
  • spent
  • spiritless
  • stark
  • stiff
  • still
  • stillborn
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightly
  • straightway
  • stupefied
  • substantially
  • sunbaked
  • sunk
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • suspended
  • tapped out
  • tasteless
  • terminated
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tired
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • torpid
  • total
  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unalive
  • unalloyed
  • unanimated
  • unconditional
  • unconscious
  • uncultivable
  • undeviatingly
  • undying
  • unfeeling
  • unfertile
  • unflavored
  • uninteresting
  • unmitigated
  • unoccupied
  • unproductive
  • unqualified
  • unqualifiedly
  • unremitting
  • unresponsive
  • unrestricted
  • unsavory
  • untillable
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • used up
  • useless
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vacant
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • veritable
  • very
  • washed-out
  • waste
  • waterless
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wearied
  • weary
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wiped out
  • wooden
  • worn
  • worn to a frazzle
  • worn-out

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