SLUGGARDLY Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

sluggardly

adjective

Definition of sluggardly

as in slothful

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Adjective

That they would be regarded as slothful morons who aren't worth the price of a ticket of admission.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2026
Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025

Definition of slothful

Adjective

Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
After the volunteers slink back to Paddy’s, the most shiftless person on campus will once again be Principal Coleman (Janelle James), whose ineptitude and vanity don’t prevent her from advocating for the students from time to time.

— Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025

Definition of shiftless

Adjective

But the maneuver failed to budge Comcast’s listless stock, which has languished for years as its primary business lost thousands of broadband customers.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
The length exacerbates all the rest of the series' sins, including a lack of emotional depth, gratuitous suffering and violence, long stretches of boring, listless plotting and extraneous characters.

— Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 June 2026

Definition of listless

Adjective

Slicking back your hair with a perfect part brings this lazy day look to the next level.

— Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 8 July 2026
Some claimed that Buddhists, like Asians generally, were passive and lazy, and that their religious rites reflected a dull, monotonous approach to life.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 July 2026

Definition of lazy

Adjective

Signs of heat stroke in dogs include heavy panting and drooling, being weak or lethargic, bright red gums and bloodshot eyes.

— Renee Anderson, CBS News, 29 June 2026
When to Contact a Wildlife Rehabilitator Always contact a wildlife rehabilitator if the turtle appears injured, such as having a cracked shell, or seems lethargic or sick.

— Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026

Definition of lethargic

Adjective

Instead, we’re treated to a series of agonizingly torpid scenes in which Nita and her co-workers are incepted by the power of Adam’s fiction, which comes to assume the force of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
Free money was great for stock-market investors, but Main Street’s recovery was torpid.

— Roger Lowenstein, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026

Definition of torpid

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