vamping
The word “vamping” has 2 syllables: vamp-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈvæmpɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for vamping?
In the thesaurus, “vamping” has 11 synonyms.
Here are synonyms for vamping along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for vamping
Meanings of vamping
- verb
- To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- (shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- To travel by foot; to walk.
- To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- To seduce or exploit someone.
- noun
- The behaviour of one who vamps.
- Camping by vampires.
Example Sentences
- The band was just vamping on the chords until the singer was ready to start.
- She sat at the piano, softly vamping as she waited for inspiration to strike.
- The DJ kept the party going by vamping between songs with catchy beats.
- He spent hours vamping in the studio, experimenting with different melodies.
- The guitarist started vamping on a blues riff, setting the mood for the jam session.
On this page you'll find 11 synonyms or another words to vamping, such as: coquetting, enchantress, flirting, joshing, kidding, razzing, ribbing.
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