SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
sluggard
noun
A habitually lazy or inactive person.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Habitually lazy person
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Usage distinction
Return to topSluggard is condemnatory and somewhat old-fashioned. Laggard falls behind and is not necessarily lazy; couch potato suggests passive leisure.
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See sluggard in use
The fable contrasts a diligent gardener with a sluggard who avoids every task.
A habitual sluggard in the family's comic retelling repeatedly invented excuses to avoid his agreed share of sorting, even when willing and able helpers needed him.
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