outstays
Exceeds welcome duration
Outstays means to remain longer than someone or something else.
To outstay your welcome is to stay so long that your host wishes you would leave: The guests outstayed their welcome by hours.
One can also outstay competitors or rivals by lasting longer than they do.
Stay beyond necessity
- prolongExtend in duration
- overextendExceed one's limits
- outlastPersist longer than another
- outwearLast longer than
impose · drag on · protract · dawdle · loiter · tarry · delay · overrun
Not wanted here
- uninvitedWithout formal welcome
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- imposingImpressively grand in scale
- burdensomeDifficult to endure
bothersome · irksome · tiresome · wearisome · presumptuous · overbearing · encroaching · discomforting
Hospitable greeting offered
- hospitalityGenerous treatment of guests
- goodwillKindly, generous spirit
- patienceCalm during delays
- invitationRequest to attend
reception · tolerance · courtesy · favor · grace period · kindness · generosity
linger
Stay beyond necessity
- prolongExtend in duration
- overextendExceed one's limits
- outlastPersist longer than another
outwear · impose · drag on · protract · dawdle · loiter · tarry · delay · overrun · exceed
unwelcome
Not wanted here
burdensome · bothersome · irksome · tiresome · wearisome · presumptuous · overbearing · encroaching · discomforting · awkward
welcome
Hospitable greeting offered
- hospitalityGenerous treatment of guests
- goodwillKindly, generous spirit
- patienceCalm during delays
invitation · reception · tolerance · courtesy · favor · grace period · kindness · generosity
outstaysexits
Departure points
withdraws · departs · takes leave · cuts short · vacates
- outstay one's welcomeStay past politeness