Synonyms of the word

faineant

• n. An irresponsible or lazy person.

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

indolent

• adj. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
• adj. Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort).
• adj. (medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
• adj. (medicine) Healing slowly.

lazy

• adj. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
• adj. Causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
• adj. Sluggish; slow-moving.
• adj. Lax.
• adj. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
• adj. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
• adj. (Britain, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
• v. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
• n. A lazy person.
• n. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).

otiose

• adj. Resulting in no effect.
• adj. Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
• adj. Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

slothful

• adj. Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.

work-shy

• adj. Alternative spelling of workshy.