Thesaurus:idler
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: one who idles; a lazy person
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- bum
- couch potato
- dawdler
- deadbeat
- dogfucker
- do-naught (archaic)
- do-nothing
- dosser (UK, Ireland)
- idler
- idleton (UK, dialect)
- faineant
- flaneur
- footler
- get-nothing (obsolete)
- goldbricker
- goof-off (US)
- lallygag
- lollygagger
- laggard
- layabout
- lazy ass (vulgar, slang)
- lazybones (slang)
- lazy louse (slang, colloquial, uncommon)
- lidderon (rare, archaic, dialectal)
- lie-abed
- loafer
- loiter-sack (obsolete)
- lounge lizard (slang)
- lounger
- morepork (Australia, New Zealand)
- poop
- ragabash (obsolete)
- shirker
- slacker
- slow belly
- slugabed
- sluggard
- sofa spud
- tarrier
- truant
Hyponyms
[edit]- goldbrick
- malingerer
- idleton (UK, dialect)
Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “275. slowness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “idler” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- some synonyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.