Slothful \Sloth"ful\, a.
Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.
[1913 Webster]
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him
that is a great waster. --Prov. xviii.
9.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slothful
adj : disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose
rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on";
"too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth";
"slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not
necessarily work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy,
otiose, work-shy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "slothful":
ambling, apathetic, bone-lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect,
claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate,
dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing,
ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle,
good-for-nothing, gradual, halting, hebetudinous, hobbled,
hobbling, idle, inactive, indifferent, indolent, inert,
lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, leisurely,
lethargic, limping, lumbering, moderate, nonaggressive, parasitic,
phlegmatic, pococurante, poking, poky, procrastinative, relaxed,
reluctant, remiss, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling,
slack, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, strolling,
tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging,
turtlelike, unenterprising, unhurried, waddling, work-shy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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