A person who is lazy, stupid, or idle by habit. / A person slow to begin necessary work, a slothful person. / A fearful or cowardly person, a poltroon.

plural of slugabed

A lazy person who lies in bed after the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.

(boxing) A boxer who tends to deliver hard punches. / (baseball) A batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits.

(baseball, idiomatic) A talented baseball batter who hits home runs.

The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly. / The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

The quality of being sluggardly.

simple past tense and past participle of sluggardise

present participle of sluggardise

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sluggardize