Disinclined for effort, inactive; indolent, slothful.

given up to idleness.

Addicted to doing no work; lazy, indolent. †idle bellies, indolent sluggards or gluttons (cf. Titus i. 12).

Avoiding exertion, shirking, lazy, sluggish.

Physically or spiritually weary or weak; slothful, lazy.

Slothful. Obsolete. rare.

Slothful, lazy, sluggish. Obsolete.

Slothful.

Given to ease or inactivity; lazy, indolent. Obsolete.

Slothful.

Of persons, etc.: Full of sloth; indisposed to exertion; inactive, indolent, lazy, sluggish.

Slothful, slow.

Worthless, ill-bred, lazy.

Slothful, lazy.

Slothful, lazy, sluggish.

Of the nature of, or exhibiting behaviour likened to, that of a male bee (see drone, n.1 1); lazy, indolent; engaged in or characterized by dull…

Lazy, idle.

Scottish. Sluggish, slothful.

Idle, indolent, slothful.

Of persons (also of animals), their disposition, etc.: Averse to labour, indisposed to action or effort; idle; inactive, slothful.

Idle, indolent; slovenly.

That is a truant, or plays truant; idle, lazy, loitering, esp. of a child, staying from school without leave; hence, wandering, straying.

Slothful, slow.

Idle, lazy.

Having the qualities of a truant; characteristic of or befitting a truant.

Of the nature of or likened to a male bee (cf. drone, n.1 1); esp. living on others; lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive; engaged in dull or…

Of the nature of a lubber; coarse of figure and dull of intellect, loutish; clumsy; lazy; stupid; sometimes transferred of animals and inanimate…

Lacking in resource; incapable of shifting for oneself; hence, lazy, inefficient.

Sluggish, slothful, lazy.

Displaying the characteristics of a fat animal; slow-witted, indolent, self-complacent.

Lazy, sluggish. (In quot. 1604 transferred.)

Without sweat; figurative without toil or labour, indolent, idle.

Benumbed with cold; hence, stupid, dull, stolid of mind; inept of hands, unhandy, unready, idle, lazy; in modern dialect, also, gruff, surly (cf. an…

Unoccupied, at rest; addicted to ease or indolence, slothful, careless.

Like a losel, good-for-nothing, idle, lazy.

Characterized by a lack of activity; doing little; lazy.

Somewhat slothful.

Slothful, lazy.

Having the characteristics of a male bee (see drone, n.1 1), esp. lazy, indolent, sluggish; (also) characterized by dull or repetitive activity.

Slothful; cowardly.

see quots.

awkward, clumsy; slovenly, untidy; idle, worthless.

Of persons, their disposition, action, etc.: Averse to toil or exertion; slothful, lazy, idle.

According to Jamieson, Slovenly. Hence perhaps belly huddroun, ‘slow-belly’, sluggard, in Dunbar.

= desidious, adj.

Lazy, sluggish.

Of a rope: Not tightly twisted. Hence figurative, of a loose, unsatisfactory character; lazy, inactive.

= sweer, adj. 3 4.

Used as an intensifier with adverbial force in the sense ‘to the bone’, (hence) ‘very, extremely, excessively’ (cf. phrases 1a(a)); forming…

English regional (Cornwall and northern). Idle, lazy. Obsolete.

(a) literal of a person, an animal, a chair, etc.; (b) not bending the back for work, idle; (c) not given to lounging, energetic.

That does nothing; idle, indolent. Also: characterized by doing nothing.

Of a person: that is, resembles, or behaves like a slob; esp. lazy; slovenly, especially with regard to physical exercise, personal hygiene and…

extremely lazy or indolent; cf. compounds 5.

dialect. Clownish, loutish; slovenly. Also in combinations.

Greek Mythology. That eats or lives on the fruit of the lotus, a fruit represented in Homer's Odyssey as inducing a state of dreamy forgetfulness…

= shammocking adj.; (also) shaky, infirm.

Of a horse: Well fed, lazy.

see quot.

That lives in a state of idle contentment or luxury; characterized by or conducive to such a state; dreamy, idle, indolent. Cf. lotus-eater, n. 2.

That does nothing; indolent, idle.

Lazy, indolent, slothful.

= do-nothing, adj. rare.

figurative. That takes things easily; comfort-loving; inactive, indolent.

somewhat lazy.

colloquial (chiefly British). With out. Inactive; lazy; very relaxed.