SLOTH Synonyms

• an absence of emotion or enthusiasm

• the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

• having no employment

• the quality of lacking substance or value

• the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work

• inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

• a disposition to remain inactive or inert

• (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

• a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

• the pace of things that move relatively slowly

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• 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