What does sluggard mean?

Definitions for sluggard
ˈslʌg ərdslug·gard

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sluggard, slugnoun

    an idle slothful person

Wiktionary

  1. sluggardnoun

    A person who is lazy, stupid, or idle by habit.

  2. sluggardnoun

    A person slow to begin necessary work, a slothful person.

  3. sluggardnoun

    A fearful or cowardly person, a poltroon.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sluggardnoun

    An idler; a drone; an inactive lazy fellow.

    Etymology: from slug.

    Cry mercy, lords, and watchful gentlemen,
    That you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here. William Shakespeare, R. III.

    Up, up, says avarice; thou snor’st again,
    Stretchest thy limbs, and yawn’st, but all in vain:
    The tyrant lucre no denial takes;
    At his command th’ unwilling sluggard wakes. Dryden.

    Sprightly May commands our youth to keep
    The vigils of her night, and breaks their sluggard sleep. Dry.

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  1. sluggard

    A sluggard is a person who is habitually lazy, inactive, or slow-moving. They often avoid work or making an effort, preferring idleness instead. The term is generally used in a negative context, indicating disapproval of this lack of motivation or action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sluggardnoun

    a person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone

  2. Sluggardadjective

    sluggish; lazy

  3. Etymology: [Slug + -ard.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sluggard in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sluggard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sluggard in a Sentence

  1. Cyril Connolly:

    I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

  2. Smart:

    Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

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