obstinacy &c 606.
lull &c (cessation) 142; quiescence &c 265; rust, rustiness.
idleness, remissness &c adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence†;
dawdling &c v.. ergophobia†, otiosity†.
dullness &c adj.; languor; segnity†, segnitude†; lentor†;
sluggishness &c (slowness) 275; procrastination &c (delay) 133; torpor,
torpidity, torpescence†; stupor &c (insensibility) 823; somnolence;
drowsiness &c adj.; nodding &c v.; oscitation†, oscitancy†;
pandiculation†, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness†, heavy
eyelids.
sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus;
Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis†, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze,
siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology†.
dull work; pottering; relaxation &c (loosening) 47; Castle of
Indolence.
[Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic,
sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic &c 174;
torpedo.
[person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil†, dawdle, mopus†; do-
little faineant [Fr.], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer;
truant &c (runaway) 623; bummer†, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker,
lounger, lazzarone [It]; lubber, lubbard†; slow coach &c (slow.) 275;
opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag†, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer,
dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus [Lat.].
V. be inactive &c adj.; do nothing &c 681; move slowly &c 275; let the
grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil†,
lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop†; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to
sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile [Fr.].
take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life,
vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the
lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time,
kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.
idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away
time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder†,
dabble, faddle fribble†, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.
sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top,
sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze,
drowze†, snooze, nap; take a nap &c n.; dream; snore one's best; settle
to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall
asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids;
weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some
z's, stack z's [Coll.].
languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.
render idle &c adj.; sluggardize†; mitigate &c 174.
Adj. inactive; motionless &c 265; unoccupied &c (doing nothing) 681;
unbusied†.
indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk†, remiss, slack, inert,
torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden,
lumpish†; exanimate†, soulless; listless; drony†, dronish†; lazy as
Ludlam's dog.
dilatory, laggard; lagging &c v.; slow &c 275; rusty, flagging;
lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering &c v.; shilly-shally
&c (irresolute) 605.
sleeping, &c v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep;
in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of
Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy, sleepful†; dozy†, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent†, lethargic,
lethargical†; somnifacient†; statuvolent†, statuvolic†; heavy, heavy with
sleep; napping; somnific†, somniferous; soporous†, soporific,
soporiferous†; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.
sedative &c 174.
Adv. inactively &c adj.; at leisure &c 685.
Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws; bankrupt of life yet prodigal of
ease [Dryden]; better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay
[Tennyson]; idly busy rolls their world away [Goldsmith]; the mystery
of folded sleep [Tennyson]; the timely dew of sleep [Milton]; thou
driftest gently down the tides of sleep [Longfellow]; tired Nature's
sweet restorer, balmy sleep [Young].