Nearby Words
Sponger
[spuhn-jer] 
| Main Entry: |
do-nothing
[doo-nuhth-ing]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lazy person |
| Synonyms: | bum, clock watcher, couch potato, couch potato, deadbeat, good-for-nothing, goof-off, goof-off, idler, laggard, layabout, lazy person, lazybones, loafer, lotus eater, lounger, malingerer, moocher, shirker, slacker, sloth, sponger |
| Main Entry: | hanger-on |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who attends the powerful for status or benefit |
| Synonyms: | dependent, flunky, follower, freeloader, lackey, leech, nuisance, parasite, sponger, sycophant, truckler |
| Main Entry: | loafer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is idle, lazy |
| Synonyms: | beachcomber, deadbeat, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, goof-off, idler, lazybones, lounger, malingerer, ne'er-do-well, shirker, slacker, slouch, sluggard, sponger, wanderer, waster, wastrel |
| Antonyms: | hard worker |
| Main Entry: | lounge lizard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social parasite |
| Synonyms: | cadger, freeloader, idle man, moocher, sponger |
| Main Entry: | cadger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | bum, freeloader, mendicant, mooch, moocher, scrounger, sponge, sponger |
| Main Entry: | layabout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bum |
| Synonyms: | beachcomber, deadbeat, do-nothing, faineant, good-for-nothing, goof-off, idler, lazybones, loafer, lounger, malingerer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, shirker, slacker, slouch, slugabed, sluggard, sponger, wanderer, waster, wastrel |
| Main Entry: | lazybones |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bum |
| Synonyms: | beachcomber, deadbeat, do-nothing, faineant, good-for-nothing, goof-off, idler, layabout, loafer, lounger, malingerer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, shirker, slacker, slouch, slugabed, sluggard, sponger, wanderer, waster, wastrel |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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