Synonyms for sloth
slɔθ or, esp. for 2, sloʊθsloth

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1. sloth

   Synonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness

   Antonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

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1. sloth, slothfulnessnoun

   a disinclination to work or exert yourself

   Synonyms:
   tree sloth, slothfulness, laziness, acedia

2. sloth, 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, acedia

3. sloth, laziness, acedianoun

   apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

   Synonyms:
   tree sloth, slothfulness, laziness, acedia, indolence

Matched Categories

1. • Edentate
   • Mortal Sin
   • Reluctance

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1. slothnoun

   Synonyms:
   inactivity, inaction, laziness, indolence, idleness, inertness, sluggishness, torpor, lumpishness, supineness, slothfulness

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1. slothnoun

   Synonyms:
   sluggishness, indolence, laziness

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1. List of paraphrases for "sloth":

   laziness, chunk, idleness

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How to use sloth in a sentence?

1. Jimmy Minardi:

   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.

2. Julia Tejada:

   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.

3. Benjamin Franklin:

   Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

4. Matthew Bennett:

   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.

5. Stanley Ambrose:

   This allowed us to trace monthly and seasonal changes in the sloth's diet and climate for the first time, and also to select the best part of the tooth for reliable radiocarbon dating.