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Adjectives (12)
slowgoing
adj. indisposed to energetic activity
slack
adj. with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream"
inert, lethargic, torpid
adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"
dull, spiritless
adj. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
lumpish, lumpen, unthinking
adj. mentally sluggish
lazy, languid
adj. slow to move or act
Fuzzynyms (74)
stolid, phlegmatic, phlegmatical
adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
drooping, flagging
adj. weak from exhaustion
laggard, dilatory
adj. inclined to waste time and lag behind
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"
easy, easygoing, leisurely
adj. not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"
gloomy, dismal, sorry
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
listless, languid, languorous
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
lame, feeble
adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"
delicate
adj. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
faint, feeble
adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
frail, fragile
adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
weak
adj. having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak link"
do-nothing, indolent, shiftless, bone-idle, bone-lazy, faineant, lazy, 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"
passive, inactive
adj. lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
compliant, acquiescent, biddable
adj. willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"
apathetic
adj. showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"
detached, dispassionate
adj. used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"
cool, impassive, imperturbable
adj. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
passionless
adj. not passionate; "passionless observation of human nature"
unemotional, emotionless
adj. unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
bovine, stolid
adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
bovine, stolid
adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
stolid, phlegmatic, phlegmatical
adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
crackbrained, idiotic
adj. insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"
mindless, vacuous, asinine, fatuous, inane
adj. devoid of intelligence
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"
Synonyms (79)
foggy, dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous
adj. stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
dreamy, lackadaisical
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
listless, languid, languorous
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
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
sluggish, lazy, languid
adj. slow to move or act
long-play, long-playing
adj. (used of records) playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records
slow-moving
adj. moving slowly; "slow-moving cars"
dormant
adj. inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"
hypoactive, underactive
adj. abnormally inactive
sedentary
adj. requiring sitting or little activity; "forced by illness to lead a sedentary life"
fool, anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike
adj. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"
dopy, dopey, cloddish, doltish
adj. heavy and dull and stupid
dim, dull, slow, dumb, dense, obtuse
adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
gaumless, gormless
adj. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality
nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless
adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
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"
Antonyms (15)
energetic
adj. possessing or exerting or displaying energy; "an energetic fund raiser for the college"; "an energetic group of hikers"; "it caused an energetic chemical reaction"
chipper, perky, jaunty
adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"
active
adj. characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action"
light, quick, agile, nimble, spry
adj. moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
alive, animated
adj. (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit; "she was wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief"
energetic
adj. possessing or exerting or displaying energy; "an energetic fund raiser for the college"; "an energetic group of hikers"; "it caused an energetic chemical reaction"
lively, animated
adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
sluggish
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