slothful

English

Alternative forms

• slothfull (archaic)

Etymology

sloth +‎ -ful

Adjective

slothful (comparative more slothful, superlative most slothful)

1. Lazy; idle; tending to sloth.

   Synonyms: inactive, sluggish, indolent

   Antonyms: active, unslothful

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 18:9:

     He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lazy

Translations

lazy, sluggish

• Bulgarian: муден (bg) (muden), ленив (bg) (leniv)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎾᎵ (ganali)
• Dutch: lui (nl)
• Finnish: laiska (fi), veltto (fi)
• French: paresseux (fr)
• Galician: preguiceiro (gl) m, nugallán (gl) m, langrán (gl) m, bostrouco m, broeiro m, vergallán (gl) m, tramazán m, manguán m, mandrión m, galbán (gl) m
• German: faul (de)
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (lats)
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• Irish: leisciúil
• Italian: pigro (it), indolente (it)
• Latin: pĭger, ignavus
• Maori: makuku
• Occitan: peresós, pigre (oc)
• Plautdietsch: ful, mooj
• Swahili: -vivu
• Turkish: tembel (tr), miskin (tr), uyuşuk (tr)