Synonyms for awhile
əˈʰwaɪl, əˈwaɪlawhile

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1. awhile

   Synonyms:
   briefly, little

   Antonyms:
   ever, always, forever, ever, more

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1. awhile, for a whileadverb

   for a short time

   "sit down and stay awhile"; "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby was quiet for a while"

   Synonyms:
   for a while

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1. awhileadjective

   Synonyms:
   for a time, for some time, some time, for a while

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1. Immanuel Kant:

   Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

2. Collegian Rudy Winkler:

   I'm not going to worry about it too much, i'd love to go the Olympics but I'm just starting. I'll be around awhile.

3. Gary Heyward:

   But after awhile it doesn't seem so hard. You see the weak spots, you see where your opportunities are.

4. Mary Rosser:

   I tell my teenage patients to think of their changing bodies like thermometers, when you increase the temperature of a thermometer, it takes awhile for the heat to catch up with the dial. Similarly, it takes awhile for your body to catch up when your hormones are changing rapidly, so you may see irregular cyclesduring this time.

5. Ross Rubin:

   But the design of the iMac is striking, it will be difficult for PC makers to match that level of thinness for awhile unless they start leveraging ARM chips that they have used only in laptops up to this point.