lounger

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noun

One who lounges; an idler.

UncommonScrabble 8

Meanings

nounlounger (plural loungers)

plural loungers

  1. One who lounges; an idler.

    Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15
    1 more example

    These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236
  2. A long chair with a reclinable support, made for lounging.

    You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was

    2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsomeone who wastes time

nounan armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it

Similar
reclinerreclining chair
Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 躺椅
  • 躺椅 (tǎngyǐ)long chair for lounging
Dutch ligstoel
  • ligstoellong chair for lounging
German Liegesessel, Liege
  • Liegesessellong chair for lounging
  • Liegelong chair for lounging
Irish bruachaire, cathaoir shuaimhnis
  • bruachairelong chair for lounging
  • cathaoir shuaimhnislong chair for lounging
Italian lettino da spiaggia, lettino
  • lettino da spiaggialong chair for lounging
  • lettinolong chair for lounging
Portuguese espreguiçadeira
  • espreguiçadeiralong chair for lounging
Spanish tumbona, reposera
  • tumbonalong chair for lounging
  • reposeralong chair for lounging
  • perezosolong chair for lounging
  • perezosalong chair for lounging

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Cite this entry
APA

lounger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lounger

MLA

“lounger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lounger. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lounger,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lounger.

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