as in snails
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
we quickly left the draggers behind and sprinted up the hill
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for draggers
Noun
-
Pest Control with Cardboard Slugs and snails are drawn to cool, damp cardboard.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026 -
Some common pests that may affect your orchid include weevils, sowbugs, springtails, snails, scale, thrips, mealybugs, and spider mites.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
-
Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
-
Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Draggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draggers. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
