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

Sluggish; lazy.

"My indolence," lamented Dr. Johnson, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness." The sluggard [from the Norwegian word for "large heavy body," which came to mean "slow-moving person"] is a lazily inactive person, one whom lassitude has rendered tediously slow-witted and dull. See: LANGUID, LASSITUDE, TORPID, OBLOMOV.

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