Slothful

Definition: Slothful

Slothful

Adjective

1. Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy".

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Date "slothful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Slothful

Inactivity

Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.

Crosswords: Slothful

Perhaps you are a naturally slothful person, sluggish and indolent, a dawdling flaneur, content to waste his life spread eagled on pillows forever indulging himself in the pleasures of the palm (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss)

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The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. (reference)

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An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued

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Afrikaans

lui (lazy, sound). (various references)

Albanian

përtac (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, good for nothing, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slacker, sluggard, snail, sundowner, swabber, truant, twiddler), i plogët (apathetic, apathetical, clumsy, dull, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, slack, supine). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسل (drowse, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, sloth, sluggard, sluggishness), ‏كسول (dull, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, passive, shiftless, slow, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, supine), ‏متراخي (slow). (various references)

Bulgarian 

муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), ленив (idle, indolent, lazy, sleepy, tardigrade). (various references)

Czech

lenivý (lazy, sluggish). (various references)

Dutch

lui (lazy, people). (various references)

Esperanto

mallaborema. (various references)

Farsi 

کاهل (Laze), تنبل (Idle, Inactive, Indolent, Laze, Lazy, Lazybones, Sloth, Slouch, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), عقب افتاده (Backward, Retard, Underdeveloped), دیرپای (Durable), بی حال (Inactive, Lackadaisical, Languid, Stolid). (various references)

French

paresseux (sloth, slug, sluggard, sluggish), indolent (slack, sluggard). (various references)

German

faul (addled, bad, decayed, dubious, dud, feeble, fishy, flimsy, foul, idle, idly, indolent, laggard, lame, lazily, lazy, off, phoney, phony, putrid, rotten, rottenly, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, sluggishly, sorry, suspicious, uneasy), träge (dull, idle, idly, indolent, indolently, inert, inertly, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, lazily, lazy, lethargic, lethargically, phlegmatic, shiftless, slack, slow, sluggardly, sluggish, stagnant, supine, supinely, tardy, torpid). (various references)

Greek 

οκνόσ (dilatory, loitering, sluggardly, sluggishness). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצל� י (lazy, sluggish), עצל (idle, indolent, lazy, sluggard, sluggish). (various references)

Hungarian

tunya (bovine, inactive, laggard, languid, lazy, slack, sluggard, sluggish, stolid, torpid), rest (inert, languid, sluggard, sluggish), lusta (idle, indolent, laggard, lazy, shiftless, sluggard, sluggish, tardy). (various references)

Italian

pigro (idle, Idler, lazy, rottenly, slack, sluggard, sluggish, truant). (various references)

Manx

neuharroogh (careless, idling, inactive, unindustrious), lhiastey (diffident, dilatory, idle, inactive, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, reluctant, remiss, workshy), lhiastagh (haggler, idle, inactive, indolent, languid, latecomer, lethargic, lethargical, loath, moribund, remiss, sluggish). (various references)

Pig Latin

othfulslay.(various references)

Portuguese

preguiçoso (chair warmer, dawdler, laggard, lazy, lazy guy, lie-a-bed, loafer, loller, lubberly, otiose, remiss, slack, slacker, sluggard, sluggish, work-shy). (various references)

Romanian

tembel (nut, slacker, sluggard, sluggish), neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), leneş (bum, dull, easeful, easy going, idle, Idler, idly, lazily, lazy, lazybones, loafer, loiterer, otiose, shiftless, sluggard, sluggish, torpid, truant, vacant), indolent (careless, easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, nonchalant, remiss, slack, sleepy, supine, truant, unheeding), comod (comfortable, comfortably, commodious, convenient, cosily, cosy, cozy, easy, easy going, easy-fitting, handy, practical, roomy, serviceable, snug, suitable). (various references)

Russian 

ленивый (faineant, floppy, idle, indolent, lazy, ornery, otiose, slack, supine, work-shy). (various references)

Scottish

leasg (loath; usually : leisg, unwilling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lenj (indolent, lazy, otiose, sluggish, work-shy). (various references)

Spanish

perezoso (Daw, deadbeat, idle, indolent, lackadaisical, layabout, lazy, rottenly, shiftless, sloth, slowcoach, slowpoke, sluggard, sluggish). (various references)

Swedish

lättjefull (idle, lazy). (various references)

Thai

ขี้เกียจ (laze away, otiose, sluggard, sluggish). (various references)

Turkish

uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), miskin (lazy, shiftless, slacker, sleepy, slowcoach, sluggard, sluggish, squalid), üşengeç (dilatory, indolent, lazy). (various references)

Ukrainian

ледачий (easeful, idle, lazy, sluggish), пасивний (deedless, passive). (various references)

Vietnamese 

uể oải (bloodless, cup, dull, languid, languishing, slack), lười biếng (indolent, lazy, sluggard, work-shy). (various references)

Welsh

diog (indolent, lazy). (various references)

segnes, socors. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "slothful": slothfully, slothfulness, slothfulnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slothful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clothsful. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: flouts, hullos.

-3 letters: flout, flush, fouls, fulls, holts, hullo, hulls, lofts, lotus, louts, shout, sloth, south, stull, sulfo, thous, tofus, tolls, tolus.

-4 letters: flus, foul, full, hols, holt, host, hots, hull, huts, loft, lost, loth, lots, lout, lush, lust, oust, outs, shot, shul, shut, slot, soft, soth, soul, thou, thus, tofu, toll, tolu.

+2 letters: slothfully.

+4 letters: slothfulness.

+5 letters: flugelhornist.