slouchy

American  

[slou-chee] / ˈslaʊ tʃi /

adjective

slouchier, slouchiest

1. of or relating to a slouch or to a slouching manner, posture, etc.

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slouchy British  

/ ˈslaʊtʃɪ /

adjective

1. slouching; lazy

2. (of clothes) casual, soft, and relatively unstructured

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Other Word Forms

• slouchiness
  noun
• unslouchy
  adjective
• slouchily
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of slouchy

First recorded in 1685–95; slouch + -y ¹

Explanation

The adjective slouchy usually describes clothing that fits in a loose, unstructured way, like your favorite slouchy sweatshirt or the slouchy socks you wear to bed. You can describe people with stooped postures as slouchy: "The substitute teacher nervously entered the classroom full of slouchy teenagers." But it's far more common to talk about slouchy boots or a slouchy, hand-knit sweater. Slouchy comes from the noun slouch, which has a Scandinavian root and meant "lazy man" before it came to mean "stooping of the head and shoulders" as well.

Example Sentences

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Siesholtz said her team input sketch ideas and prompted Raspberry AI to help create a soft and slouchy purse, going back and forth until they landed on the right design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

I’d swapped handbags for the season — a slouchy straw tote with a teak handle traded for a forest-green suede pouch — and my wallet, apparently, hadn’t gotten the memo.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025

The most human of them is Jacques Louis Vidal’s “True Detective Staring at the Sun,” a 3-D plastic printout of a slouchy man with big feet who resembles a colorless comic book character.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

The silhouette is slouchy, as if giving up after a long day.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

“Janie, us been in dis dirty, slouchy place two days now, and dat’s too much. Us got tuh git outa dis house and outa dis man’s town. Ah never did lak round heah.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

At Camoshita, I was taken with a notch-lapeled marriage of a blazer and a French work jacket that did away with the breast pocket and sat a bit slouchier on the shoulders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2018

Mr. Lidell’s musical choices are similarly idyllic, evoking Stevie Wonder with a slouchier beat, with help from rhythm aces like the bassist Pino Palladino and the drummer DaRu Jones.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

“And then it all falls into kind of a slouchier silhouette,” McCollough said backstage.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2016

Mr. Daniel was born in 1971, and his voice is thinner and slouchier and stranger.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2012

Q. I know some riddles are not solvable by even the slouchiest, but can you tell me how the Atlanta Braves can return to their winning ways?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2016