dalliance

The word “dalliance” has 3 syllables: dal-li-ance

It's pronounced as /ˈdæliəns/


What is synonym and antonym for dalliance?

In the thesaurus, “dalliance” has 81 synonyms and 10 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for dalliance along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dalliance

  • a little on the side
  • affair
  • amorous play
  • amusement
  • binge
  • buffoonery
  • carrying-on
  • dabbling
  • delay
  • delaying
  • delight
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • dilly-dallying
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • fling
  • fooling around
  • friskiness
  • frittering
  • frivoling
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hilarity
  • hob
  • hobby
  • hobbyhorse
  • horseplay
  • idling
  • impishness
  • jinks
  • kick
  • knavery
  • lark
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • messing around
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • pastime
  • play
  • playfulness
  • playing
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • poking
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puttering
  • rascality
  • recreation
  • relationship
  • relaxation
  • revel
  • revelry
  • roguishness
  • rollick
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • seduction
  • sport
  • sportiveness
  • spree
  • tomfoolery
  • toying
  • trifling
  • waggery
  • wantonness
  • whoopee
  • working late at office

Antonyms for dalliance

Meanings of dalliance

  • noun
    1. Playful flirtation; amorous play.
    2. A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
    3. A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

Example Sentences

  • The whispered secrets and stolen glances hinted at a hidden dalliance.
  • In the moonlit garden, a subtle dalliance unfolded between the two strangers.
  • Amidst the laughter and music, their eyes met in a fleeting dalliance.
  • The old letters revealed a passionate dalliance from a bygone era.
  • Despite the formal setting, there was an air of playful dalliance between them.

On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to dalliance, such as: a little on the side, affair, amorous play, amusement, binge, buffoonery, carrying-on.

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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

machinations

  • amour
  • artifices
  • cabals
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • collusions
  • complicities
  • confederacies
  • connivances
  • conspiracies
  • conspirations
  • contrivances
  • counter-conspiracies
  • counterconspiracies
  • counterplots
  • cover-ups
  • dalliance
  • deception
  • designs
  • devilry
  • dirty pool
  • dodges
  • double-dealing
  • drafts
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • fooling around
  • fourberie
  • frame-ups
  • fraud
  • funny business
  • games
  • gimmicks
  • ground plans
  • hankie-pankie
  • hokey-pokey
  • intrigues
  • knavery
  • liaison
  • love affair
  • maneuvers
  • manipulations
  • mischief
  • monkey business
  • plots
  • programs
  • rackets
  • rings
  • romance
  • schemes
  • sexual activity
  • sharp practice
  • shenanigans
  • skullduggery
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • subterfuge
  • subterfuges
  • systems
  • trickeries
  • trickery
  • tricks

safe sex

  • breeding
  • carnality
  • coition
  • coitus
  • commerce
  • congress
  • copulating
  • copulation
  • coupling
  • dalliance
  • fornication
  • hanky-panky
  • insemination
  • intercourse
  • lovemaking
  • mating
  • relations
  • sex
  • sex act
  • sexual intercourse
  • sexual relations
  • sexuality
  • whoopee

calf-love

  • affair
  • amour
  • attachment
  • crush
  • dalliance
  • dawn of love
  • entanglement
  • first love
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • hanky-panky
  • idyl
  • idyll
  • infatuation
  • intrigue
  • liaison
  • love
  • love affair
  • passion
  • puppy love
  • romance
  • young love

gamboling

  • amusement
  • binge
  • bounding
  • buffoonery
  • capering
  • carousing
  • carrying on
  • cavorting
  • clowning
  • curveting
  • curvetting
  • cutting capers
  • cutting up
  • dalliance
  • dancing
  • delight
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • disporting
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • fling
  • fooling around
  • friskiness
  • frisking
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hilarity
  • hob
  • hobby
  • hobbyhorse
  • hopping
  • horseplay
  • horsing around
  • impishness
  • jinks
  • joyriding
  • kick
  • kiting
  • knavery
  • lark
  • larking
  • leaping
  • loping
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • pastime
  • play
  • playfulness
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • prancing
  • rascality
  • recreation
  • relaxation
  • revel
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • revelry
  • roguishness
  • roistering
  • rollick
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • roughhousing
  • skipping
  • skylarking
  • sport
  • sporting
  • sportiveness
  • spree
  • springing
  • tomfoolery
  • tripping
  • tumbling
  • waggery
  • wantonness
  • whoopee

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