English Explanatory Dictionary

desidious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Lazy, idle, slothful.

Word forms

desidious more desidious most desidious

Etymology

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.

Derived words

desidiousness
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