What are some opposite words for sloth?
Antonyms for sloth
slɔθ or, esp. for 2, sloʊθsloth
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term sloth.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
sloth
Antonyms:
application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousnessSynonyms:
changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness
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Princeton's WordNet
sloth, slothfulnessnoun
a disinclination to work or exert yourself
Synonyms:
tree sloth, slothfulness, laziness, acediasloth, tree slothnoun
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
Synonyms:
tree sloth, slothfulness, laziness, acediasloth, laziness, acedianoun
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms:
tree sloth, slothfulness, laziness, acedia, indolence
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
slothnoun
Synonyms:
sluggishness, indolence, laziness
How to use sloth in a sentence?
In just 40 samples, we detected 49 species spanning mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish, in the Rainforest House( at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark) we even detected the guppies in the pond, the two-toed sloth and the boa. When sampling air in just one outdoor site, we detected many of the animals with access to an outdoor enclosure in that part of Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark, for example kea, ostrich and rhino.
These results, providing the first direct evidence of omnivory in an ancient sloth species, demands reevaluation of the entire ecological structure of ancient mammalian communities in South America, as sloths represented a major component of these ecosystems across the past 34 million years.
The story that we can read from the tracks is that the humans were stalking; following in the footsteps, precisely in the footsteps of the sloth, while it was being distracted and turning, somebody else would come across and try and deliver the killer blow. It's an interesting story and it's all written in the footprints.
Late night eating is the kiss of death. There’s a lot of drinking involved on a cruise and the combination of food and booze basically turns you into a sloth.
He adored that sloth stuffed animal. He would sleep with him every night. We had a giant ‘hang in there’ sloth balloon in his hospital room, all of the nurses loved it.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#479 | industry | |
#509 | application | |
#1836 | attention | |
#1992 | effort | |
#2137 | labor | |
#10278 | patience | |
#14474 | persistence | |
#14639 | pains | |
#17460 | diligence | |
#29382 | perseverance | |
#38020 | exertion | |
#38659 | sloth | |
#53237 | constancy | |
#248070 | assiduity |
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