slothful

  • 11slothful — slothfully, adv. slothfulness, n. /slawth feuhl, slohth /, adj. sluggardly; indolent; lazy. [1350 1400; ME; see SLOTH, FUL] Syn. sluggish; inactive, torpid, slack. See idle. * * * …

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  • 12slothful — adjective Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth …

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  • 13slothful — Synonyms and related words: ambling, apathetic, bone lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, do nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 14slothful — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sluggish, lethargic, indolent; see lazy . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. lazy, indolent, idle, shiftless, lacking ambition, unenterprising, sluggish, lethargic, listless. ANT.: energetic, ambitious, *go getting III… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 15slothful — sloth|ful [ˈsləuθfəl US ˈslouθ ] adj formal lazy or not active >slothfulness n [U] …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16slothful — sloth|ful [ slouθfəl, slaθfəl ] adjective MAINLY LITERARY lazy …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 17slothful — sloth·ful || sləʊθfÊŠl adj. lazy, slow, sluggish …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 18slothful — a. Lazy, idle, inert, sluggish, indolent, dronish, inactive, lumpish, supine, torpid, slack …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 19slothful — adjective formal lazy or not active slothfully adverb slothfulness noun (U) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20slothful — adj 1. lazy, idle, indolent, sluggard, slug gardly, faineant, do nothing, otiose; unindustrious, unenterprising, unambitious, nonaggressive; listless, Dial. limpsy, lackadaisical, insouciant, pococurante, easy going; slack, lax, remiss, negligent …

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