Thesaurus:idler

Thesaurus

idler

English

Noun

Sense: one who idles; a lazy person

Synonyms

• bum
• couch potato
• dawdler
• deadbeat
• do-naught (archaic)
• do-nothing
• dosser (UK, Ireland)
• idler
• idleton (UK, dialect)
• faineant
• flaneur
• footler
• get-nothing (obsolete)
• goldbricker
• goof-off (US)
• lallygag
• lollygagger
• laggard
• layabout
• lazy ass (vulgar, slang)
• lazybones (slang)
• lazy louse (slang, colloquial, uncommon)
• lidderon (rare, archaic, dialectal)
• lie-abed
• loafer
• loiter-sack (obsolete)
• lounge lizard (slang)
• lounger
• morepork (Australia, New Zealand)
• poop
• ragabash (obsolete)
• shirker
• slacker
• slow belly
• slugabed
• sluggard
• sofa spud
• tarrier
• truant

Hyponyms

• goldbrick
• malingerer
• idleton (UK, dialect)

Hypernyms

• employee
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• worker    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• bumpkin    [⇒ thesaurus]
• troublemaker    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vagabond    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• lazy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• shirk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• scrounger    [⇒ thesaurus]
• videophilia

Further reading

• “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “275. slowness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “idler” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• some synonyms at Google Ngram Viewer