sloth
noun
[ sləʊθ ]
• reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness.
• "he should overcome his natural sloth and complacency"
Similar:
laziness,
idleness,
indolence,
slothfulness,
inactivity,
inertia,
sluggishness,
apathy,
accidie,
listlessness,
lassitude,
passivity,
lethargy,
languor,
torpidity,
slowness,
heaviness,
dullness,
shiftlessness,
fainéance,
hebetude,
Opposite:
industriousness,
energy,
• a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.
• a group of bears.
• "the pair had been attacked by a sloth of bears"
Origin:
Old English: from slow + -th2.
