Synonyms of the word slouch


SLOUCHBEARING - CARRIAGE - DROOP - FLAG - INCOMPETENT - POSTURE - SAG - SLUMP - SWAG - WALK

slouch

  • n. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.
  • n. Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
  • n. Someone who is slow to act.
  • n. (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
  • v. (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

bearing

  • adj. That which bears (whatever this combining form combines with).
  • adj. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
  • n. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
  • n. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or…
  • n. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
  • n. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
  • n. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
  • n. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
  • n. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  • n. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
  • n. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
  • v. present participle of bear.

carriage

  • n. The act of conveying; carrying.
  • n. Means of conveyance.
  • n. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
  • n. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
  • n. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
  • n. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
  • n. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
  • n. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
  • n. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
  • n. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid…
  • n. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage.

droop

  • v. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
  • v. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
  • v. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
  • v. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
  • n. something which is limp or sagging;.
  • n. a condition or posture of drooping.

flag

  • n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
  • n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
  • n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or…
  • n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
  • n. (construction) Abbreviation of flagstone: a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or…
  • n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
  • n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically…
  • n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise…
  • n. (Britain) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
  • n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally,…
  • n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space…
  • v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
  • v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
  • v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
  • v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
  • v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
  • v. (computing) To signal (an event).
  • v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
  • v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
  • v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
  • v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
  • v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
  • v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
  • n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
  • n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
  • n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
  • n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
  • v. To lay down flagstones.
  • n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
  • n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
  • n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
  • n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value.

incompetent

  • adj. Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.
  • adj. Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
  • adj. (medicine) an incompetent cervix is one that opens too early in pregnancy, provoking the baby to be born.
  • n. A person who is incompetent.

posture

  • n. The way a person holds and positions their body.
  • n. A situation or condition.
  • n. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
  • n. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
  • v. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will…
  • v. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
  • v. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

sag

  • n. The state of sinking or bending; sagging.
  • n. The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
  • n. The difference height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for…
  • v. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
  • v. (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
  • v. (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to…
  • v. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
  • v. (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
  • n. Alternative form of saag.

slump

  • v. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
  • v. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
  • v. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
  • v. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
  • v. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  • n. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance,…
  • n. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard…
  • n. (Scotland, Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
  • n. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
  • n. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  • n. (slang, by extension) A period when the person lives without sex when sex is expected or desired.

swag

  • v. (intransitive and transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
  • v. (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
  • v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
  • n. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
  • n. A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
  • n. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
  • n. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
  • n. (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
  • n. (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
  • n. (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and…
  • n. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
  • n. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
  • v. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
  • v. To transport stolen goods.
  • n. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

walk

  • v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
  • v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  • v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  • v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
  • v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  • v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
  • n. A trip made by walking.
  • n. A distance walked.
  • n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
  • n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  • n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  • n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
  • n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
  • n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  • n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  • n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  • n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
  • n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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