bone-idle

Speech parts

1. bone-idle - Adjective

2. bone-idle - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

constitutionally lazy or idle

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

bone idle

Synonyms

bone-lazy loafer inert inactive idle lazy lax disinterested hazy indolent do-nothing lackadaisical deadbeat loafing listless

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Antonyms

beaver active warlike doer determined dedicated

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Examples

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy. Noel Gallagher

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons. Jo Brand

Close letter words and terms

bone-grubber bone-headed dinosaur bone-house wasp bone-in bone-in equivalent weighl bone-lazy