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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lazy person |
| Synonyms: | dawdler, drone, faineant, idler, laggard, lazybones, loafer, slouch, slug, snail |
| Notes: | a laggard is someone who falls behind others; a sluggard is an idle slothful person |
| Main Entry: | drone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is lazy |
| Synonyms: | idler, leech, loafer, lounger, parasite, slug, sluggard, sponger |
| Antonyms: | overachiever, workaholic |
| Main Entry: | inert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not moving; lifeless |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, dead, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, impassive, impotent, inactive, inanimate, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, listless, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, powerless, quiescent, quiet, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, slumberous, static, still, stolid, torpid, unmoving, unreactive, unresponsive |
| Antonyms: | active, alive, animated, lively, mobile, moving, working |
| 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: | slowpoke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laggard |
| Synonyms: | dawdler, dilly-dallyer, idler, plodder, procrastinator, slug, sluggard, snail, straggler |
| Main Entry: | sluggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, slow-moving |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, comatose, dopey, down, dragging, draggy, drippy, heavy, hebetudinous, inactive, indolent, inert, laid-back*, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, mooney, off, phlegmatic, pokey, slack, sleepyheaded, slothful, slow, sluggard, slumberous, stagnant, stiff, sullen, torpid, unresponsive |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, energetic, fast, lively, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fainéant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lazy |
| Synonyms: | idle, inactive, indolent, otiose, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | fainéant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idler |
| Synonyms: | bum, good-for-nothing, layabout, lazy person, loafer, ne'er-do-well, slacker, sluggard, wastrel |
| 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 |
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