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Adjectives (11)
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sluggish, sulky
adj. moving slowly; "a sluggish stream"
sluggish, slowgoing
adj. indisposed to energetic activity
dull, slow, sluggish
adj. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
inert, sluggish, soggy, torpid
adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"
Fuzzynyms (42)
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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"
phlegmatic, phlegmatical
adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
drooping, flagging
adj. weak from exhaustion
bovine
adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
phlegmatic, phlegmatical
adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
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
adj. lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
feeble, lame
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"
fragile
adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
weak
adj. deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind"
faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
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
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"
impassive, stolid
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
adj. unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
bovine
adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
Synonyms (24)
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behind time
adj. (of timepieces) registering earlier than what is correct
bumper-to-bumper
adj. used of traffic; "bumper-to-bumper traffic"
dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey
adj. wasting time
dragging
adj. marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
drawn-out
adj. (used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels
lazy
adj. moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"
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"
dazed, foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous
adj. stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
lackadaisical
adj. idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
listless
adj. lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
abeyant, 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"
Antonyms (14)
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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"
animated, alive
adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
chipper, debonair, debonaire, 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. (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
agile, nimble, quick, 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(p)
adj. (followed by `to' or `of') aware of; "is alive to the moods of others"
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"
sluggish
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