sloth

Meanings

Noun

• Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
• A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
• a group of bears.

Verb

• To be idle; to idle (away time).

Related

Similar words

• tardigrade

Narrower meaning words

• two-toed sloth, three-toed sloth

Origin

• From Middle English slouthe, slewthe, from Old English slǣwþ ("sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor"), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō ("slowness, lateness"), equivalent to slow + -th. Cognate with Scots sleuth ("sloth, slowness").