DRONISH

Meaning of DRONISH in English

ˈdrōnish adjective

Etymology: drone (I) + -ish

: like a drone : indolent , slow

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

DRONISH — (a.) Like a drone; indolent; slow.
Английский словарь Webster
DRONISH — ( a. ) Like a drone; indolent; slow.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DRONISH — adj like a drone; indolent; slow.
Webster English vocab
DRONISH — a. Idle, lazy, indolent, sluggish, slow, inactive, drony.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
DRONE — drone 1 — dronish , adj. /drohn/ , n. 1. the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
UNENTERPRISING — Synonyms and related words : bone-lazy, cadging, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, dilatory, discreet, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, ergophobic, …
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SPONGING
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SLOW
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SLOTHFUL — Synonyms and related words : ambling, apathetic, bone-lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, do-nothing, …
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SLACK — Synonyms and related words : Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, Paphian, abandon, abate, abatement, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, backward, bagging, …
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SHIFTLESS — Synonyms and related words : aimless, bone-lazy, cadging, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, ergophobic, faineant, feckless, good-for-nothing, grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, …
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SCROUNGING — Synonyms and related words : abstraction, annexation, appropriation, beggary, begging, bone-lazy, boosting, bumming, cadging, conversion, conveyance, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, …
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REMISS — Synonyms and related words : Micawberish, backward, behindhand, bone-lazy, cadging, careless, culpably negligent, dallying, delaying, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, disregardful, …
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PROCRASTINATIVE — Synonyms and related words : Micawberish, backward, bone-lazy, cadging, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatory, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dragging, dronish, drony, easy, …
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PARASITIC — Synonyms and related words : abject, accompanying, accordant, agreeing, all-devouring, all-engulfing, associate, associated, at one with, backscratching, beggarly, bloodsucking, bone-lazy, …
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NONAGGRESSIVE — Synonyms and related words : bone-lazy, cadging, civilian, conciliatory, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dovish, dronish, drony, easy, ergophobic, faineant, good-for-nothing, indolent, …
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LAZY — Synonyms and related words : Micawberish, airy, ambling, backward, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, careless, casual, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, …
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LAX — Synonyms and related words : Micawberish, Paphian, abandoned, accented, accepting, admissive, aleatoric, aleatory, allowing, alveolar, amorphous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approximate, …
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LAGGARD — Synonyms and related words : Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, clock watcher, comatose, dallier, dallying, dawdle, dawdler, delaying, …
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INDOLENT — Synonyms and related words : ambling, bone-lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, …
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GOOD-FOR-NOTHING — Synonyms and related words : Bowery bum, NG, bad lot, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bone-lazy, budmash, bum, bummer, cadging, …
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EASY — Synonyms and related words : Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Paphian, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, affable, affluent, agreeable, ambling, amenable, amiable, …
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DO NOTHING — Synonyms and related words : be a sideliner, be conservative, be still, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, clock watcher, coast, …
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DILATORY — Synonyms and related words : Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, dallying, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dragging, …
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SLUGGISH — a. 1. Indolent, idle, lazy, slothful, dull, inactive, drowsy, inert, dronish, lumpish, supine, phlegmatic. 2. Slow. 3. Inert, inactive. 4. …
Dictionary of English Synonyms
SLOTHFUL — a. Lazy, idle, inert, sluggish, indolent, dronish, inactive, lumpish, supine, torpid, slack.
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LAZY — a. 1. Slothful, sluggish, sluggard, indolent, idle, inert, inactive, supine, torpid, slack, dronish, lumpish. 2. Sluggish, slow, creeping.
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INERT — a. 1. Inactive, lifeless, passive, motionless, dead. 2. Dull, indolent, torpid, sluggish, slothful, lazy, idle, supine, lumpish, dronish.
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INACTIVE — a. 1. Inert, destitute of activity, without inherent energy. 2. Inert, inoperative, not in action, not in force. 3. Inert, …
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HUMDRUM — a. Dull, prosy, dronish, stupid, wearisome, tiresome, dry, dreary.
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Webster's New International English Dictionary

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