All briskness antonyms

noun briskness

• clumsiness — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
• stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
• slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
• apathy — You can use apathy to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything.
• sadness — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
• indifference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
• lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
• coolness — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
• aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
• disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
• reluctance — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
• unwillingness — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
• discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
• dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• idleness — the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
• inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
• laziness — lazy evaluation
• lifeless — not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
• coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
• unhappiness — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
• indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
• negligence — the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
• carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
• inattention — lack of attention; negligence.
• thoughtlessness — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• leisure — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
• lingering — to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• retardation — the act of retarding or state of being retarded.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• inertia — inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
• dispirited — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
• inability — lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions.
• ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.