Synonyms of running on

running on 1 of 2

adjective

as in holding up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• holding up
• keeping up
• holding on
• lasting
• enduring
• abiding
• residual
• persisting
• lingering
• continuing
• staying
• sticking around
• perduring
• biding
• remaining
• leftover
• surviving
• carrying through
• tarrying
• prevailing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dying (down)
• letting up
• waning
• winding up
• subsiding
• moderating
• ebbing
• abating
• ending
• dying
• passing
• concluding
• finishing
• closing
• terminating
• stopping
• ceasing
• leaving off
• quitting
• lapsing
• expiring
• discontinuing
• desisting

running on

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verb

present participle of run on

1

as in chatting

to engage in casual or rambling conversation

we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chatting
• talking
• conversing
• blowing smoke
• shooting the breeze
• chewing the rag
• chewing the fat
• rattling
• talking a blue streak
• chattering
• pattering
• prating
• discussing
• gabbing
• rapping
• babbling
• nattering
• schmoozing
• jabbering
• visiting
• prattling
• chinning
• blabbing
• gassing
• cackling
• gabbling
• kibitzing
• jawing
• palavering
• twittering
• shmoozing
• kibbitzing
• chaffering
• gossiping
• tattling
• expatiating
• yapping
• descanting
• yakking
• yammering
• yacking

2

as in remaining

to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state

allow the savings account to run on for now

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remaining
• continuing
• lasting
• holding on
• keeping up
• persisting
• staying
• holding up
• enduring
• surviving
• lingering
• abiding
• sticking around
• perduring
• carrying through
• prevailing
• biding
• tarrying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• winding up
• ending
• dying
• passing
• finishing
• closing
• stopping
• dying (down)
• concluding
• terminating
• expiring
• leaving off
• ceasing
• discontinuing
• lapsing
• quitting
• waning
• moderating
• desisting
• letting up
• subsiding
• ebbing
• abating

3

as in going on

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point

she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on

Synonyms & Similar Words

• going on
• rambling
• blathering (on)
• rattling
• running one's mouth
• wandering
• maundering
• chatting
• deviating
• straying
• digressing
• sidetracking
• drivelling
• pattering
• chattering
• prating
• blithering
• gibbering
• blabbering
• waffling
• burbling
• gabbing
• drooling
• jabbering
• prattling
• blabbing
• driveling
• gabbling
• bumbling