Synonyms of snails

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noun

plural of snail

as in slugs

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others

go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slugs
• stragglers
• crawlers
• lingerers
• plodders
• laggards
• slowpokes
• dawdlers
• loiterers
• draggers
• laggers
• delayers
• dalliers
• latecomers
• loafers
• idlers
• sluggards
• lazybones
• slouches
• procrastinators
• loungers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• speedsters
• hustlers
• scramblers
• speeders
• rushers
• go-getters
• hurriers

snails

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verb

present tense third-person singular of snail

as in crawls

to move slowly

the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crawls
• drags
• creeps
• pokes
• noses
• inches
• shuffles
• oozes
• slouches
• limps
• plods
• creaks (along)
• trudges
• tramps
• shambles
• lumbers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• races
• speeds
• flies
• floats
• tears
• sails
• glides
• zips
• whizzes
• hurries