slothful

Speech parts

1. slothful - Adjective

2. slothful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lazy indolent faineant otiose work-shy slack sleepyhead heavy sleepy idler phlegmatic slow passive tired inert
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Antonyms

high-speed working active animal sonic sprightly
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Phrases with the word

slothful individual be slothful slothful person

Examples

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good. Basil of Caesarea

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. Theodore Roosevelt

An unclean person is universally a slothful one. Henry David Thoreau

A slothful man never has time. Italian Proverb

A slothful man is a beggar's brother. Scottish Proverb

A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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