sloth

Meaning

Noun

1. Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
2. A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
3. A collective term for a group of bears.

Verb

To be idle; to idle (away time).

Synonyms

laziness

idleness

indolence

sluggishness

inactivity

slothfulness

slackness

acedia

sleuth

shiftlessness

tree sloth

accidie

slovenliness

slowness

inertia

lazy person

apathy

torpor

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

enervation

erst

exaltation

faineance

family

👪

field

flabbiness

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

herd

hive

idle

idler

inactiveness

inefficiency

inertness

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

laze

lazy

leash

lethargy

listlessness

mob

murder

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

raft

rookery

rout

school

🏫

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleepiness

slouch

snail

🐌

sounder

span

string

🪢

stud

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

torpidness

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

wedge

harras

ai

clowder

three-toed sloth

idlenes

murmuration

hirsel

cete

bradypus

army

ascension

atonia

atony

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bum

bunch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sləʊθ/

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. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).