Word Meanings - SLOTHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLOTHFUL)

• Inert
• Indolent
• slothful
• lazy
• sluggish
• heavy
• inactive
• passive
• dormant
• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• wanting
• flow
• idle
• lax
• dilatory
• tardy
• remissful
• Sluggish
• Slow
• inert
• indolent
• phlegmatic
• Iazy

Related words: (words related to SLOTHFUL)

• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• PHLEGMATICALLY
  In a phlegmatic manner.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• PHLEGMATICLY
  Phlegmatically.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• DORMANT
  In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• SLACK; SLACKEN
  1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake;
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• UNSLACKED
  Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.