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Slothful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Disinclined to work or exertion; lazy. See Synonyms at lazy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

Synonyms Lazy, Sluggish, etc. (see idle), slack, supine, torpid.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. disinclined to work or exertion

Word Usage

"The addition of "slothful" is to mark the precise nature of his wickedness: it consisted, it seems, not in his doing anything against, but simply nothing for his master."

Equivalent

idle

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

inactive sluggish lazy indolent idle

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

shiftless inattentive indolent recreant disobedient