See do-nothing in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
- (Informal)
Resistant to exertion and activity:
fainéant, idle, indolent, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish. Idiom: bone lazy. See action, industrious
noun
- (Informal)
A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity:
bum1, drone1, fainéant, good-for-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, slugabed, sluggard, wastrel. (Informal) do-little, lazybones, slug2. (Slang) slouch. See industrious
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