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Adjectives (14)
sluggish, languid
adj. slow to move or act
do-nothing, indolent, shiftless, bone-idle, bone-lazy, faineant, otiose, slothful, workshy, work-shy, bone idle, fainéant
adj. disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
Fuzzynyms (24)
unhurried
adj. relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"
inactive, abeyant, suspended, in abeyance
adj. temporarily inactive
easy, easygoing, leisurely
adj. not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"
dawdling, pokey, laggard, dilatory, poky
adj. wasting time
dreamy, lackadaisical
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
negligent
adj. characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence"
derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss
adj. failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"
inert, lethargic, sluggish, torpid
adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"
Synonyms (23)
behind time
adj. (of timepieces) registering earlier than what is correct
crawling, bumper-to-bumper
adj. used of traffic; "bumper-to-bumper traffic"
dawdling, pokey, laggard, dilatory, poky
adj. wasting time
dragging
adj. passing painfully or tediously slowly; "the dragging minutes"
drawling, drawn-out
adj. (used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels
long-play, long-playing
adj. (used of records) playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records
slack, sluggish
adj. with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream"
slow-moving
adj. moving slowly; "slow-moving cars"
at leisure
adj. euphemism for "unemployed"
leisure, leisured
adj. free from duties or responsibilities; "he writes in his leisure hours"; "life as it ought to be for the leisure classes"- J.J.Chapman; "even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men"- Ida Craven
twiddly
adj. (British) occupied with trifles; twiddling one's thumbs
unengaged, unemployed, unoccupied
adj. not busy or occupied; free; "the cancellation left her unengaged a good part of the afternoon"
Antonyms (0)
lazy
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