Do-nothing Synonyms

do͝onŭthĭng
Resistant to exertion and activity
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fainéant
  2. idle
  3. indolent
  4. lazy
  5. shiftless
  6. slothful
  7. sluggard
  8. sluggish
A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. idler
  2. loafer
  3. layabout
  4. bum
  5. good-for-nothing
  6. sluggard
  7. lazybones
  8. slacker
  9. drone
  10. fainéant
  11. couch-potato
  12. deadbeat
  13. ne'er-do-well
  14. goof off
  15. no-good
  16. laggard
  17. slugabed
  18. lazy person
  19. wastrel
  20. do-little
  21. lotus-eater
  22. lounger
  23. slug
  24. malingerer
  25. slouch
  26. moocher
  27. quietist
  28. shirker
  29. sloth
  30. sponger
Lacking interest
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. passive

Words Related to Do-nothing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Do-nothing Sentence Examples

  • I'll do nothing of the kind!

  • He might go running over there or he might do nothing.

  • Yielding to the inevitable, but not forgetting to announce a brilliant victory in a bulletin, he sent his troops into winter quarters along the Passarge and down the Baltic, enjoining on his corps commanders most strictly to do nothing to disturb their adversary.

  • In August 1791, Fersen was sent to Vienna to induce the emperor Leopold to accede to a new coalition against revolutionary France, but he soon came to the conclusion that the Austrian court meant to do nothing at all.

  • Trench could do nothing to prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity.

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