Shiftless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shiftless \Shift"less\, a.
     Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients;
     characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide
     for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity;
     hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow;
     shiftless management. -- {Shift"less*ly}, adv. --


     {Shift"less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shiftless
       adj : lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative;
             lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless
             way"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "shiftless":
     aimless, bone-lazy, cadging, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish,
     drony, easy, ergophobic, faineant, feckless, good-for-nothing,
     grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, heedless, idle, improvident, indolent,
     ineffective, irresponsible, lackadaisical, laggard, lax, lazy,
     negligent, nonaggressive, otiose, parasitic, pococurante,
     procrastinative, remiss, scrounging, slack, slothful, slow,
     sponging, thoughtless, thriftless, unambitious, uncaring,
     uneconomical, unenterprising, uninspired, unmotivated, unproviding,
     unthrifty, work-shy