🛋️ Comfortable and relaxed 🎶 Smooth and mellow 😴 Lazy and idle

loungy

8.1

Tending to be lazy and preferring to sit or rest instead of move

adjective
/ˈlaʊndʒi/

Informal

: perezoso

After a long week, he felt especially loungy and spent Saturday on the couch.

I have simply been doing a ton of e-mail work so I was feeling the utmost loungey today.

Examples

Her loungy attitude made it difficult for her to keep up with her energetic friends.
The cat grew more loungy as it got older, preferring sunny spots to playtime.
He feels very loungy on weekends.
Why do you always seem so loungy?
After a long week, he felt especially loungy and spent Saturday on the couch.
Her loungy attitude made it difficult for her to keep up with her energetic friends.
The cat grew more loungy as it got older, preferring sunny spots to playtime.

Synonyms

lazy

vsloungy

34 1.0

Moving slowly and in a relaxed way

highlights choosing relaxed sitting and idle behaviour instead

sedentary

vsloungy

16 5.6

Spending most time sitting and getting little exercise

refers instead to a deliberate relaxed habit of sitting and resting

slothful

vsloungy

4 7.2

Not willing to work and often inactive

focuses on casual sitting behavior without moral judgement

indolent

vsloungy

2 8.0

Not wanting to work or try hard

is more about relaxed posture and sitting around

bone-idle

vsloungy

Offensive

1 9.1

Very lazy and not willing to do any work or help

describes a milder, lounging preference rather than extreme refusal

faineant

vsloungy

Archaic

9.9

Not willing to work or make effort

is more common and describes habitual lack of action simply

bone-lazy

vsloungy

Offensive

7.9

Not willing to do any work most of the time

means softer habitual restfulness and tendency to sit often

Antonyms

active

664 1.0

Operating now and not stopped

energetic

93 1.6

Full of energy and active

industrious

17 3.3

Working hard and carefully to complete tasks

How Lazy

indolent

2 8.0

lazy

355 1.0

loungy

Informal

8.1

idle

57 2.8

sluggish

30 3.9

Surface Forms

loungy positive

Morphology

loungy = lounge (transparent) = lounge + y

This sense is derived from the verb 'to lounge' (be idle or relaxed) with '-y' to mean 'inclined to lounge', which is a transparent adjectival formation.

Etymology

Loungy comes from lounge, which can mean 'to sit and do nothing' or be lazy. So a loungy person tends to relax a lot and move slowly.