Synonyms and antonyms of People who are lazy or slow to act in American Thesaurus

People who are lazy or slow to act

layabout (noun)

someone who is lazy and avoids work or anything that involves any effort

slob (noun)

informal someone who is lazy or messy

couch potato (noun)

informalshowing disapproval someone who spends a lot of time sitting at home watching television

deadbeat (noun)

informal someone who is lazy and does not want to achieve anything in life

passenger (noun)

mainly British someone in a team who does not do his or her fair share of the work

lump (noun)

informal someone who is lazy or stupid

parasite (noun)

showing disapproval a lazy person who lives by getting money, food, etc. from other people

bum (noun)

informal a lazy person

slowpoke (noun)

Americaninformal someone who is causing a delay by not doing something as fast as others or as fast as you would like them to

goldbrick (noun)

Americaninformal someone who is lazy and tries to avoid work, especially by pretending to be sick

good-for-nothing (noun)

someone who is lazy and never does anything useful

idler (noun)

old-fashioned someone who does not work because they are lazy

the idle rich ()

very rich people who can spend their time enjoying themselves rather than working

laggard (noun)

old-fashioned a person or organization that is slow to do something or slow to make progress

lazybones (noun)

informal someone who is behaving in a lazy way

loafer (noun)

informal someone who loafs around

ne’er-do-well (noun)

old-fashioned a person who is lazy and does not want to work

Norm (noun)

Australianinformal a lazy man who spends all his time watching television, especially sports programs

slacker (noun)

informal someone who tries to avoid working

timeserver (noun)

informal someone who does not put much effort into their work because they are waiting until they can retire (=stop working because they are old) or get a different job

vegetable (noun)

offensive someone who is not at all active

wastrel (noun)

literary a lazy person who wastes time or money