Slouch vs. Slump — What's the Difference?

To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping posture.

To fall or sink heavily; collapse

To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.

To droop, as in sitting or standing; slouch.

To cause to droop; stoop.

To decline suddenly; fall off

An awkward, drooping posture or gait.

To perform poorly or inadequately

(Slang) An awkward, lazy, or inept person

To sink or settle, as into mud or slush.

A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance

To slide down or spread out thickly, as mud or fresh concrete.

Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

The act or an instance of slumping.

Someone who is slow to act.

A drooping or slouching posture

(dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

A sudden falling off or decline, as in activity, prices, or business

(intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture

An extended period of poor performance, especially in a sport or competitive activity

(intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

See grunt.

(transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.

(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.

A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

(intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.

An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

(intransitive) To slouch or droop.

To droop, as the head.

(transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.

To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.

To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.

An incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions;

A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

A stooping carriage in standing and walking

A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.

Assume a drooping posture or carriage

A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.

Walk slovenly

A boggy place.

(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

A boggy place.

The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc.

To lump; to throw into a mess.

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.

To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; - said of masses of earth or rock.

To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points.

A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality;

A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

Assume a drooping posture or carriage

Fall or sink heavily;

Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly;

Go down in value;