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adj
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bone-idle, fainéant, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lither, otiose, slothful, sluggish, swear, torpid, work-shy
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Slow; having little motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, lethargic, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy
Antonyms: nimble
adj
Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, braindead, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dense, dented, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dim, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dull, dumber than a box of rocks, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, goofy, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, ridiculous, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, silly, simple, slow, slow on the uptake, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, thick, unapprehensive, unclever, uninformed, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as an ox, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as dirt, dumber than a rock, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as two short planks, thick as a whale omelette, ass-brained, fuckwitted, shit-for-brains, thick as pig shit
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
slow and apathetic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of business) not active or brisk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dull, slow
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
moving slowly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sulky
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English slug Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English sluggish From slug + -ish.
Across languages
104 source translations are retained for this English entry.
