lazyish

adjective

Definition of lazyishnext
as in sluggish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lazyish
  1. sluggish
  2. lethargic
  3. sleepy
  4. inert
  5. apathetic
  6. quiescent
  7. drowsy
  8. listless
Adjective
  • The joint letter also comes against a backdrop of surging government borrowing costs, spiraling inflation and sluggish growth across much of the continent, as well as concerns about rising budget deficits in various EU countries.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Labor market remains sluggish That lack of churn was underscored in a separate report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of sluggish
Adjective
  • The national committee has faced a host of criticism from other Democrats for its lethargic fundraising, including calls for DNC Chair Ken Martin to step down that have so far gone unheeded.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The show was also horribly paced, with way too many pointless instrumental spotlights that somehow managed to come across as both showy and lethargic at the same time.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of lethargic
Adjective
  • Illustration by Patricia Bolaños In sleepy South Slope, a local son in search of a beer bar walked past a familiar, long-shuttered laundromat.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Carlotta and Dedo have to do everything in their power to prove her innocence and avoid losing her again, with their investigation taking them to the heart of their sleepy suburban town, Sundersheim.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of sleepy
Adjective
  • Technicians spent weeks running inert dummy rods through the cutters to verify tolerances before introducing live radioactive fuel.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Everything and nothing seems to happen in the curiously inert action drama Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which stars Mahershala Ali as a philosophical Black Muslim hitman trying to raise three children after the death of his wife.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of inert
Adjective
  • Their targets are the large numbers of apathetic legal voters who sit out elections.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • While Hocevar may have been apathetic Sunday about the incident, Keselowski wasn’t.
    — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of apathetic
Adjective
  • As in The History of New York, the Dutch patriarchs are invariably idle and quiescent.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Experts believe the volcano is currently in a quiescent state, but researchers monitor it around the clock.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Definition of quiescent
Adjective
  • Allergy drugs can ease those symptoms and make people drowsy, potentially offering relief from insomnia.
    — Kara Smythe, EverydayHealth.com, 15 May 2026
  • Fleets that deployed the company's AI dash cams, which detect drowsy or distracted driving, saw a 73% reduction in accidents after 30 months, according to company data from more than 2,600 customers.
    — TIME Contributors, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of drowsy
Adjective
  • In her final years, disappointed visitors reportedly threw sand into her cage to try to make the listless bird move, as author Joel Greenberg recounted to National Geographic.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Behind, a frieze of listless, phallus-dragging men and affable, gabbing women cross the horizon.
    — Walker Mimms, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of listless
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“Lazyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lazyish. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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