monkeying (around)
verb
1
as in cutting up
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior stop monkeying around in the house or you'll break something Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- cutting up
- horsing around
- fooling around
- showing off
- acting up
- clowning (around)
- carrying on
- reveling
- showboating
- roaring
- skylarking
- hotdogging
- revelling
- misbehaving
- romping
- cavorting
- capering
- larking
- rollicking
- gamboling
- frisking
- frolicking
- roughhousing
- carousing
- mafficking
- wassailing
- gambolling
- disporting
2
as in fooling around
to spend time in aimless activity would rather just monkey around instead of doing work Synonyms & Similar Words
- fooling around
- messing around
- playing
- hanging about
- goofing (around)
- fiddling (around)
- puttering (around)
- pottering (around)
- fribbling
- kicking around
- doodling
- trifling
- horsing around
- clowning (around)
- hanging (around or out)
- lounging
- idling
- loafing
- dawdling
- diddling (with)
- dillydallying
- tinkering
- lolling
- dallying
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- setting (to)
- buckling (down)
- settling (down)
- knuckling down
- accretion disk
- accretion disks
- accretion thinning
- accretional
- accretionary
- accretionary hypothesis
- accretions
- accretive
- Accrington
- accroach
- accroides
- accroides gum
- accroides resin
- accroideses
- accroidesses
- accruable
- accrual
- accruals
- accrue
- accrued
- accrued dividend
- accrued interest
- accrued liability
- accruement
- accruements