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

• slouchily adverb
• slouchiness noun
• unslouchy adjective

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

A memory is unlocked in a pair of slouchy carpenter pants and delicate stacks of golden jewelry, and the longing for home is temporarily satiated.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

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

The kind you might have first met at a 4th of July picnic in a glass Pyrex dish, where guacamole and sour cream mingled with salsa and shredded cheese in slightly slouchy strata.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 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

He was thin and slouchy, with the easy boastfulness that came with his inherited wealth, his famous surname.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie