sloth
11sloth — [ slouθ, slaθ ] noun 1. ) uncount MAINLY LITERARY lazy behavior 2. ) count an animal that lives in trees and moves very slowly. It lives in South and Central America …
12sloth — [n] laziness do nothingness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, lackadaisicalness, languidness, laxness, lethargy, listlessness, slackness, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, supineness; concepts 411,633 …
13sloth — ► NOUN 1) reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness. 2) a slow moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from branches using its long limbs and hooked claws. DERIVATIVES slothful adjective. ORIGIN Old English, from SLOW(Cf.… …
14Sloth — Taxobox name = Sloths MSW3 Gardner|pages=100 101|id=11800002] image caption = Brown throated Three toed Sloth ( Bradypus variegatus ) Gatun Lake, Republic of Panama. regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia subclassis = Theria… …
15sloth — /slawth/ or, esp. for 2, /slohth/, n. 1. habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness. 2. any of several slow moving, arboreal, tropical American edentates of the family Bradypodidae, having a long, coarse, grayish brown coat often of …
16Sloth — Jørn Sloth (* 5. September 1944 in Sjörring bei Thisted) ist ein dänischer Schachspieler und der 8. Fernschachweltmeister. Sloth, von Beruf Lehrer in den Fächern Mathematik und Russisch am Gymnasium Ringkøbing, hat neben seinen Fernschacherfolgen …
17sloth — noun (plural sloths) Etymology: Middle English slouthe, from slow slow Date: 12th century 1. a. disinclination to action or labor ; indolence b. spiritual apathy and inactivity < the deadly sin of sloth > 2. any of various slo …
18sloth — [[t]slo͟ʊθ[/t]] sloths 1) N UNCOUNT Sloth is laziness, especially with regard to work. [FORMAL] Employers claimed that the workers were lazy, bringing the sloth of the countryside to the mines. Syn: idleness 2) N COUNT A sloth is an animal from… …
19sloth — /sloʊθ / (say slohth), /slɒθ/ (say sloth) noun 1. habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness. 2. Zoology either of two genera of sluggish arboreal edentates of the family Bradypodidae of tropical America: the two toed sloth,… …
20sloth — The South American animal is so called because of its sloth, that is, because it is slow moving. (English sloth is properly the noun of slow, just as width is of wide.) …
