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

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 thing I can’t stop thinking about, though, is the slouchy Louis Vuitton yoga bag in a violet hue, styled with a yoga mat of the same color.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 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

“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