SLOTHFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slothful mean? 

• SLOTHFUL (adjective)
  The adjective SLOTHFUL has 1 sense:

1. disinclined to work or exertion

  Familiarity information: SLOTHFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOTHFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disinclined to work or exertion

Synonyms:

faineant; indolent; lazy; otiose; slothful; work-shy

Context example:

the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy

Similar:

idle (not in action or at work)

Derivation:

slothfulness (a disinclination to work or exert yourself)

 Context examples 

No, Jane, no: this world is not the scene of fruition; do not attempt to make it so: nor of rest; do not turn slothful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)