sloth
Plural: sloths
Noun
- Extreme laziness; a slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammal.
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- Any animal in the suborder Folivora.
- Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- Any animal in the suborder Folivora.
- Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
- A group of bears.
Verb
- To be idle; to idle (away time).
Examples
- His Scrabble opponent’s sloth in making moves made the game drag on forever.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English slouthe, slewthe (“laziness”), from Old English slǣwþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiwiþu, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Synonyms
acedia, laziness, slothfulness, tree sloth, tardigrade
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
sloth: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsloth: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sloth: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary