Synonyms of the word

sluggard

• n. A person who is lazy, stupid, or idle by habit.
• n. A person slow to begin necessary work, a slothful person.
• n. A fearful or cowardly person, a poltroon.

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

do-nothing

• n. A lazy person.

idler

• n. One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
• n. One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch.
• n. A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt…
• adj. comparative form of idle: more idle.

layabout

• n. A lazy person.

loafer

• n. An idle person.
• n. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
• n. (Western US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

slug

• n. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
• n. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. A bullet (projectile).
• n. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
• n. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
• n. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of…
• n. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared…
• n. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
• n. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
• n. (television editing) A black screen.
• n. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed…
• n. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
• n. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
• n. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
• n. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
• n. A ship that sails slowly.
• n. A blow, usually with the fist.
• v. To drink quickly; to gulp.
• v. To down a shot.
• v. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
• v. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation…
• v. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
• v. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
• v. To make sluggish.