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desidious

desidious adjective: lazy, idle, slothful.

Adjective

desidious (comparative more desidious, superlative most desidious)

  1. (obsolete) Lazy, idle, slothful.

Forms of desidious

comparativemore desidious
superlativemost desidious

Origin of desidious

An alteration of the Latin dēsidiōsus (“slothful”), from dēsidia (“idleness, indolence, sloth”), from dēsideō (“to sit idle”), from dē (“completely, thoroughly”) + sedeō (“to sit”); compare desidiose.

Words formed from desidious

Questions about desidious

What does desidious mean?
Desidious means lazy, idle, slothful.
What part of speech is desidious?
Desidious is an adjective.

Words near desidious in the dictionary

  1. desiderative
  2. desideratives
  3. desideratum
  4. Desiderius
  5. desidiose
  6. desidious
  7. desidiousness
  8. desids
  9. desier
  10. desighn
  11. desight

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