"slothful" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-slothful.wav Forms: more slothful [comparative], most slothful [superlative]
Etymology: From sloth + -ful. Etymology templates: {{af|en|sloth|-ful|pos=adjective}} sloth + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} slothful (comparative more slothful, superlative most slothful)
  1. lazy; idle; tending to sloth. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: inactive, sluggish, indolent, slothfull [archaic] Translations (lazy, sluggish): муден (muden) (Bulgarian), ленив (leniv) (Bulgarian), ᎦᎾᎵ (ganali) (Cherokee), lui (Dutch), laiska (Finnish), veltto (Finnish), paresseux (French), preguiceiro [masculine] (Galician), nugallán [masculine] (Galician), langrán [masculine] (Galician), bostrouco [masculine] (Galician), broeiro [masculine] (Galician), vergallán [masculine] (Galician), tramazán [masculine] (Galician), manguán [masculine] (Galician), mandrión [masculine] (Galician), galbán [masculine] (Galician), faul (German), 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (lats) (Gothic), leisciúil (Irish), pigro (Italian), indolente (Italian), pĭger (Latin), ignavus (Latin), makuku (Maori), peresós (Occitan), pigre (Occitan), ful (Plautdietsch), mooj (Plautdietsch), -vivu (Swahili), tembel (Turkish), miskin (Turkish), uyuşuk (Turkish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.