sloth

sloth is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Slowness; tardiness. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Slowness; tardiness.
2. noun. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
3. noun. Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
4. intransitive verb. To be idle.
5. noun. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

   Synonyms: acedia, laziness

6. noun. any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
7. noun. a disinclination to work or exert yourself

   Synonyms: slothfulness

Synonyms

acedia, laziness, slothfulness

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sloth:

holts

Common word forms

sloths, slothful

Words from these letters

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