Synonyms of sluggard

sluggard 1 of 2

noun

ˈslə-gərd 

as in slug

a lazy person

tried to wake up the sluggards who were still sleeping at that late hour

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slug
• snail
• drone
• idler
• lazybones
• loafer
• bum
• slouch
• layabout
• deadbeat
• do-nothing
• couch potato
• good-for-nothing
• slugabed
• delayer
• laggard
• lotus-eater
• shirker
• lingerer
• dawdler
• straggler
• creeper
• crawler
• slowpoke
• loiterer
• slacker
• procrastinator
• goldbrick
• malingerer
• stick-in-the-mud
• clock-watcher
• saunterer
• ne'er-do-well
• putterer
• quitter
• lounger
• dropout
• loller
• dallier

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doer
• hustler
• self-starter
• comer
• hummer
• achiever
• go-getter
• powerhouse
• go-ahead
• live wire
• highflier

sluggard

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adjective

as in slothful

Related Words

• slothful
• lazy
• indolent
• shiftless
• listless
• apathetic
• sluggardly
• lethargic
• languorous
• slack
• torpid
• sluggish
• ambitionless
• sedentary
• sleepy
• quiescent
• inactive
• inert
• motionless
• resting
• dormant
• static
• inanimate
• lazyish
• dull
• still
• drowsy
• drugged
• dopey
• asleep
• dead
• comatose
• somnambulant
• catatonic

Dissimilar Words

• active
• busy
• engaged
• occupied
• working
• vigorous
• industrious
• energetic
• sprightly
• dynamic
• lively
• spirited
• diligent
• kinetic
• vital
• animated
• hardworking
• vivacious
• assiduous
• bouncing
• perky
• peppy
• springy
• zippy
• sedulous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sluggard

Noun

Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019

Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that. — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017

Slug was – is – a variant on sluggard, which was actually used as a surname for some time, apparently. — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017

French workers, whom the British like to dismiss as holiday-hogging sluggards, are more productive than the British. — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017

Adjective

The stock really has not done much of anything in the last five years, the stock following a similar sluggard pattern of the company’s revenue line. — Moneyshow, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021