Synonyms for sloth
All synonyms
Noun
1. Laziness — laziness; slowness of mind; disinclination to action or labour; a feeling combining indifference and…
laziness, indolence, torpor, idleness, sluggishness, inertia, inactivity, slothfulness, inertness, acedia, apathy
Other
supineness, belatedness, tardity, sleuth dated, tardigrade dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Laziness; slowness of mind; disinclination to action or labour; a feeling combining indifference and lethargy; a dragging idleness.
Hot summer days inspire a sense of sloth in me.
Related words
- Word family
- slothful
- Phrases
- two-toed sloth ground sloth sloth bear three-toed sloth
Forms
- Plural
- sloths → lazinesses, indolences, torpors, idlenesses…
Example sentences
- laziness Were it not for laziness, he might have been rich.
- idleness Sooner or later, you will regret your idleness.
- indolence Our problem is not ignorance, but indolence.
- belatedness She began her letter by entreating me to forgive the belatedness of her reply.
By length
- 6 letters
- apathy3, sleuth1, torpor2, acedia
- 7 letters
- inertia3, tardity
- 8 letters
- laziness3, idleness3
- 9 letters
- indolence, inertness3
- 10 letters
- inactivity5, tardigrade, supineness
- 11 letters
- belatedness
- 12 letters
- sluggishness3, slothfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (apathy3 = 3 syllables).