Synonyms of snails

snails 1 of 2

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of snails

Noun

In Connecticut, diamondback terrapins live in saltmarsh habitats and consume coffee bean snails, which if left unchecked would consume all the grass in the saltmarsh. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026

Pest Control with Cardboard Slugs and snails are drawn to cool, damp cardboard. — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 10 July 2026

The effect has been especially damaging on corals, oysters, and free-swimming snails and slugs. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026

You are steered through an astonishing limestone canyon, crossing turquoise water where only tiny snails and blind shrimp are capable of living. — James Rampton, TheWeek, 9 July 2026

But the data also indicated that at least 7% of the species cats eat are insects and other invertebrates, particularly beetles, and less frequently crustaceans, arachnids, centipedes, snails and slugs, and millipedes. — Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

From climate change to drug discovery, quantum computing is expected to be solve problems at a pace where even the fastest supercomputers appear to be slow-moving snails. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026

Having snakes around is actually beneficial to gardening—many snakes feed on garden pests such as slugs and snails, and others prey on rodents. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 July 2026

Old Coffee Coffee grounds are sometimes spread around gardens or mixed into the soil to enrich it and deter slugs, snails, and other pests. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2026