Definitions of sloth

1. To be idle.

2. a disinclination to work or exert yourself

3. any of several slow- moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

4. Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth ( see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.

5. Idleness; laziness; indolence; a certain animal of South and Central America, so called from its slow movements.

6. Laziness; sluggishness; an active arboreal quadruped.

7. A slow moving tree dweling mammal of tropical America.

8. Tardiness; sluggishness; laziness; an edentate quadruped of S. America, of two species, living and feeding on trees, so called from its alow, awkward movement on the ground.

9. Disinclination to action or labour; habitual indolence or laziness; idleness; a S. Amer. quadruped, so called from its slow and laborious motions.