Need another word that means the same as “slouch”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “slouch” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Slouch” are: slump, hunch
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “slouch” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| hunch | Raise (one’s shoulders) and bend the top of one’s body forward. Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow. |
| slump | Undergo a sudden severe or prolonged fall in price, value, or amount. United slumped to another one nil defeat. |
| armchair | A large, comfortable chair with side supports for a person’s arms. An armchair traveller. |
| bed | Used with reference to a bed as the typical place for sexual activity. The children were bedded at ten o clock. |
| bookcase | An open cabinet containing shelves on which to keep books. |
| brocade | Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern. The quilt was of white silk brocade. |
| calmness | The state or condition of being free from disturbance or violent activity. She exuded calmness and good humour. |
| chair | Carry someone aloft in a chair or in a sitting position to celebrate a victory. The murderer was sentenced to die in the chair. |
| corridor | A passage along the side of some railway carriages, from which doors lead into compartments. Even on long journeys early trains had no corridors. |
| couch | Lay down. The child was lying on the examination couch. |
| cushion | The layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle. Underlay forms a cushion between carpet and floor. |
| furnishing | (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable. The furnishing comprised three easy chairs and one oval table. |
| lay | Lay eggs. Lay a responsibility on someone. |
| lounge | An upholstered seat for more than one person. A TV lounge. |
| mattress | A large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed. |
| pause | Cease an action temporarily. She dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain. |
| perch | Cause to perch or sit. Eve perched on the side of the armchair. |
| pillow | Rest one s head as if on a pillow. Her transparent cheek all pale and warm pillow d his deathlike forehead. |
| posture | Assume a posture as for artistic purposes. Stood with good posture. |
| preside | Act as president. Preside over companies and corporations. |
| recline | Cause to recline. She reclined her head on the pillow. |
| recliner | An armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it. |
| recumbent | Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest. Recumbent shrubs. |
| repose | Lay something to rest in or on. He had lost none of his grace or his repose. |
| rest | Be at rest. A shoulder rest. |
| sofa | An upholstered seat for more than one person. Sofa cushions. |
| stationary | (of a planet) having no apparent motion in longitude. Stationary machinery. |
| stool | Lure with a stool as of wild fowl. Fibre in the child s diet will soften the stools. |
| supine | Failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence. No other colony showed such supine selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried. |
| tranquility | A state of peace and quiet. |
| unmoving | Not in motion. This must be the most unmoving performance of Verdi s opera ever recorded. |
| upright | Upright in position or posture. Upright stone slabs. |
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