Meaning of DO-NOTHING
| Pronunciation: | | doo'nuthing
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| | Definition: | | [n] person who does no work; "a lazy bum" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bum, idler, layabout, loafer |
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| | See Also: | | clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, nonworker, shirker, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, woolgatherer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Do"-noth`ing\, a.
Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.
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| | Related Terms: | | be a sideliner, be conservative, be still, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, clock watcher, coast, contemplative, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, delay, diddler, dilatory, dillydallier, doless, dolittle, doodler, dormant, drift, dronish, drony, easy, ergophobic, faineant, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-nothing, goof off, goof-off, hang around, hang fire, hibernate, idle, idler, immobile, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lax, laze, lazy, lazybones, leave alone, let alone, let be, lie around, lie dormant, lingerer, loaf, loafer, loiter about, loiterer, loll around, loller, lollop around, lotus-eater, lounge, lounge around, lounger, lubber, meditative, mooch around, moon, moon around, mope, moper, motionless, neuter, neutral, nonaggressive, not budge, not stir, oppose change, paralytic, paralyzed, parasitic, passive, potterer, procrastinating, procrastinative, putterer, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, remiss, rest, scrounging, shiftless, sit around, sit back, sit it out, slack, slothful, slouch, slouch around, sloucher, slow, slug, slugabed, sluggard, sponging, stagnant, stagnate, stagnating, stand around, stand pat, stand still, standpat, static, stationary, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, trifler, unenterprising, vegetable, vegetate, vegetative, wait and see, waiter on Providence, watch and wait, work-shy |
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