EGAVE

sloth

About 0.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Any animal in the suborder Folivora. Any member of species of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae of herbivorous, arboreal South American mammals, noted for its slowness and inactivity. Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
  3. noun Any member of species of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae of herbivorous, arboreal South American mammals, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
  4. noun Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
  5. noun A group of bears.
  6. verb To be idle; to idle (away time).
    He has been slothing this whole weekend.

Similar words

laziness slothfulness acedia tree sloth idleness resty chunk toed cat unau

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Word family

sloths

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