lingerers
Those who stay
Lingerers are people who remain somewhere longer than expected or necessary.
The word often carries a slight negative connotation—someone who lingers may be unwelcome or holding others up: The café staff waited for the last lingerers to leave.
Lingerers delay departure, whether from reluctance, enjoyment, or simply being slow to move on.
Those who linger aimlessly
- hangers-onThose who cling opportunistically
- stragglersThose who fall behind
- dawdlersThose who move slowly
- remaindersWhat stays after subtraction
guests · visitors · party-goers · conversationalists · socializers · chatters · mingling · overstayers
Those who habitually delay
- delayersThose who cause lateness
- slowpokesUnhurried, tardy individuals
- time-wastersUnproductive drains on hours
- unhurriedTaking one's time
leisurely · foot-draggers · plodders · slowcoaches · waiters · hesitaters · postponers · stallers
What stays after most goes
- tracesSlight remaining amounts
- holdoversThose remaining from before
- survivorsThose still alive after
- aftereffectsDelayed secondary consequences
residuals · hangovers · echoes · vestiges · ghosts · memories · shadows · impressions
People experiencing pain
- invalidsChronically ill persons
- convalescentsThose recovering from sickness
- patientsThose receiving medical treatment
- ailingIn poor health
weakened · fading · declining · wasting · struggling · recovering · bedridden · homebound
loiterers
Those who linger aimlessly
- hangers-onThose who cling opportunistically
- stragglersThose who fall behind
- dawdlersThose who move slowly
remainders · guests · visitors · party-goers · conversationalists · socializers · chatters · mingling · overstayers · night-owls
procrastinators
Those who habitually delay
- delayersThose who cause lateness
- slowpokesUnhurried, tardy individuals
- time-wastersUnproductive drains on hours
unhurried · leisurely · foot-draggers · plodders · slowcoaches · waiters · hesitaters · postponers · stallers · ditherers
remnants
What stays after most goes
aftereffects · residuals · hangovers · echoes · vestiges · ghosts · memories · shadows · impressions · scents
sufferers
People experiencing pain
- invalidsChronically ill persons
- convalescentsThose recovering from sickness
- patientsThose receiving medical treatment
ailing · weakened · fading · declining · wasting · struggling · recovering · bedridden · homebound · chronic
- ghostsapparitions, ghosts, apparition, phantoms, specter
- slackersslackers, loafers, idlers, idler, layabouts
- hoverershummingbirds, dragonflies, helicopters, drones, quadcopters
lingererspassers-through
Those traversing without stopping
transients · flitters · drop-ins · passersby · fly-by-nights