Waiting

/ˈweɪtɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of wait.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of wait
2. (obsolete) Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding.
3. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
4. Attendance, service.

Example Sentences

Your guest has been waiting for you. (progressive) They hurried into the waiting car. (participle used as adjective)

At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

Waiting for any news in a waiting room. (gerund)

In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.

There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.

But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.

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Antonyms for waiting

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• waitings

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