sloth
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounLaziness; slowness of mind; disinclination to action or labour; a feeling combining indifference and lethargy; a dragging idleness.
Example:
Hot summer days inspire a sense of sloth in me.
- verbTo be idle; to idle (away time).
Example:
He has been slothing this whole weekend.
- nounAny animal in the suborder Folivora. Any member of species of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae of herbivorous, arboreal South American mammals, noted for its slowness and inactivity. Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,548 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 66% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None