Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Laziness or lack of energy
n
(now literary) Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy.
adj
(archaic) Lazy, slothful.
n
Spiritual or mental sloth.
n
A person who has acedia
adj
Exhibiting acedia, or spiritual sloth.
n
Alternative form of acedia [Spiritual or mental sloth.]
adj
(figuratively) Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement.
adj
(idiomatic) Neglectful of an important task, responsibility, or opportunity.
n
Slowness; backwardness.
adj
Of a gun barrel, unbored.
adj
Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.
adj
Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
adj
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
adj
Inert, lumbering, slow in movement
adj
(derogatory) lazy or irresponsible
adj
(obsolete) Lazy, idle, slothful.
v
To give a lackluster, uninspired, or timid performance (especially when capable of doing better); to phone it in.
adj
Slow or tardy.
n
Any similar period of inactivity, laziness, or stagnation.
n
Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.
n
The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
adj
Feeble; lacking spirit or activity; shiftless.
adv
Slowly; with reluctance, or as if held back.
adj
Having hands that are dry.
adj
Sluggish, listless.
n
The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor.
adj
Lacking nerve or force; enervated.
adj
(by extension) cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
adj
Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy
adj
Lacking energy or vigor.
adj
(figuratively) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
adj
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
adj
(obsolete) Causing lethargy.
n
Mental lethargy or dullness.
adj
(obsolete) idle
n
An idle period; something done idly.
adj
(obsolete) Not diligent; idle, slothful.
n
Habitual laziness or sloth.
n
Habitual laziness or sloth.
adj
Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor
adj
Sluggish or lethargic.
adj
Lazy; slothful; indolent.
adj
(archaic) lackadaisical
n
(archaic) lack; absence or deficiency
adv
In the manner of a laggard; sluggishly; slowly.
adj
Becoming fatigued or languid.
n
The condition of being languid
adv
In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.
n
The state of languishing.
n
(obsolete) languishment
n
(uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
adj
lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.
n
The quality of being languorous.
n
Alternative spelling of languor [(uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.]
adj
Alternative form of languorous [lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.]
adj
(obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
n
Listlessness or languor.
adj
Characterized by lassitude.
adj
Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
n
The symbol ∞ or anything of the same shape.
adj
(obsolete) Leisurely.
n
(obsolete) Slowness; sluggishness.
adj
slow; sluggish
n
Slowness, sluggishness.
adj
(archaic) lethargic
adv
In a lethargic manner, without energy, tiredly.
n
The quality of being lethargic.
adj
(obsolete) Made lethargic.
adj
Inducing a state of lethargy.
n
A state of extreme torpor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness.
adj
dull or lacking vitality
n
(by extension) Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock. [from 16th c.]
adj
Lazy, slothful; listless.
adj
Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
adj
Casual; undisciplined or haphazard.
adj
(idiomatic, slang, US) Of no value.
adj
(figuratively) Of a person: self-sufficient and not requiring much attention.
adj
(by extension) Slow; weak.
adj
Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.
n
The perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking South Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.
n
Momentary or short-lived boredom.
adj
(Philippines, neologism) Lacking urgency; slow or idle.
adj
Lazy and apathetic.
adj
sleepy; drowsy; sluggish; careless
adj
Ponderous; slow and deliberate.
adj
Tending to procrastinate; supporting or suggesting procrastination.
adj
Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
adj
(obsolete) stagnant; motionless
adj
(now regional) Restive, resistant to control.
adj
Easily defeated; a pushover.
adj
(figuratively, of a person etc.) Lacking vivacity.
n
(obsolete) Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.
adj
Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
adj
Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative.
adj
(by extension) Unsophisticated or unthinking; dimwitted in appearance.
adj
Slipshod and lazy; lacking diligence and effort.
n
(rare) slacker
n
The world or lifestyle of slackers; laziness.
adj
Like a slacker; lazy, idle.
adj
Characteristic of a slacker
n
Laxity; idleness; lack of requisite effort.
adj
Full of laxity; characterised by laxness; relaxed; (by extension) unmotivated, lazy.
n
(informal, derogatory) Half-hearted activism, usually in the form of posting badges, images, apps, or text on social media without taking further action.
adj
slow, sluggish
n
(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
adj
Lazy; idle; tending to sloth.
adj
(rare) slothful; lazy
adj
Careless or negligent; sloppy.
adj
Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
adj
(colloquial, idiomatic) Of a person, slow to comprehend or process intellectually.
adj
Lacking a keen or swift intellect, not too bright or not too swift.
n
(informal, UK) A person who is slow on the uptake; one who does not comprehend new ideas quickly.
n
(rare, nonstandard) Slowness.
adv
(manner) At a slow pace.
adj
Typified by slowness; characteristically slow
n
The state or condition of being slow; slowness.
adj
Alternative form of slow-witted [Lacking a keen or swift intellect, not too bright or not too swift.]
v
(transitive, rare) To make lazy.
adj
Like a sluggard.
adj
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
adj
Characterised or marked by slumber; sleepy.
n
Being stagnant; being without circulation.
adj
Causing or relating to a state of stagnation.
adj
Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
adj
(figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
n
Profound ennui or weariness of one's life.
adj
(obsolete) Moving slowly; slow-paced.
adj
Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
adj
Lacking vigour or energy; listless; weak; nerveless.
adj
(obsolete) Having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.
n
The property of being torpid.
n
torpor; torpidity
n
(obsolete) torpidness
n
A state of apathy or lethargy.
adj
Inducing torpor; tending to cause apathy or lethargy.
adj
Lacking vivacity and liveliness; dull or sterile.
v
(by extension) To clumsily put into employ a large weapon or object.
n
Vagueness.
adj
Slow in taking action; lacking resolve.
adj
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
adj
Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm.
adv
Inaccurately; not on target.
adj
(Britain) Disinclined to work; lazy.
n
Obsolete spelling of aestivation [(biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.]

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