sluggard

Speech parts

1. sluggard - Noun

2. sluggard - Adjective

Meaning

A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.

Sluggish; lazy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slug loafer idler lubber idle drone lazy sluggish snail poke bum indolent do-nothing slob truant
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Antonyms

hummer explorer beaver comer grindstone dynamo
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Hypernyms

loafer idler bum do-nothing layabout

Related terms

slug sluggish lug

Examples

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. William Makepeace Thackeray

Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard. Hesiod

4749. The Sluggard makes his Night till Noon. Thomas Fuller (writer)

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Russian Proverb

The Sluggard works twice, the niggard pays twice. Bulgarian Proverb

At evening the sluggard is busy. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

slugfest slugga sluggabed sluggardise sluggardize sluggardliness