Chapter Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Sleep, nap, doze, slumber, snooze, dog-sleep, cat-nap, siesta, dream, trance, hypnotic state, snore, a wink of sleep, lethargy, hibernation, èstivation.

(Phrases). The Castle of Indolence; dolce far niente; the Land of Nod; the Fabian policy; laissez aller; laissez faire; masterly inactivity; the thief of time.

An idler, laggard, truant, do-nothing, lubber, sluggard, slumberer, faineant, flâneur, loafer, drone, dormouse, slow - coach, stick-in-the-mud, lounger, slug, lazy-bones, lotus-eater, slacker.

(Phrases). Sleeping partner; waiter on Providence; fruges consumere nati.

Cause of inactivity, see 174; hypnotism.

(Verbs). To be inactive, etc., to do nothing, let alone, lie by, lie idle, stagnate, lay to, keep quiet, hang fire, relax, slouch, loll, drawl, slug, dally, lag, dawdle, potter, lounge, loiter, laze, moon, moon about, loaf, hang about, mouch; to waste, lose, idle away, kill, trifle away, fritter away or fool away time; dabble, fribble, peddle, fiddle-faddle.

(Phrases). To fold one's arms; to let well alone; play truant; while away the time; to rest upon one's oars; to burn day-light; to take it easy; slack off.

To sleep, slumber, nod, close the eyes, close the eyelids, doze, drowse, fall asleep, take a nap, go off to sleep, hibernate, èstivate, yawn.

(Phrases). To sleep like a top; to sleep as sound as a top; to sleep like a log; to sleep like a dormouse; to eat the bread of idleness; to loll in the lap of indolence.

To render idle, etc., to sluggardise.

(Adjectives). Inactive, unoccupied, unemployed, unbusied, doing nothing 685, resourceless.

Indolent, easy - going, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, languid, supine, heavy, dull, stagnant, lumpish, soulless, listless, moony, limp, languorous, exanimate.

Dilatory, laggard, lagging, tardigrade, drawling, creeping, dawdling, faddling, rusty, lackadaisical, fiddle - faddle, shilly-shally, unpractical, unbusiness-like.

(Phrases). With folded arms; les bras croisés; with the hands in the pockets; at a loose end.

Sleepy, dozy, drowsy, somnolent, dormant, asleep, lethargic, napping, slubbering, somniferous, soporific, soporous, soporose, somnific, hypnotic, narcotic, unawakened, unwakened.

(Phrase). In the arms or lap of Morpheus.

680. Haste (Substantives), dispatch, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness, impetuosity, post-haste, acceleration, see 274.

Hurry, flurry, bustle, fuss, splutter, scramble, brusquerie, fidget, fidgetiness 682.

(Verbs). To haste, hasten, urge, press on, push on, bustle, hurry, buck up, precipitate, accelerate; to bustle, scramble, scuttle, scurry, scoot, plunge, dash on, press on.

(Phrases). To make the most of one's time; to lose not a moment; festina lente; nec mora nec requies; veni, vidi, vici.

(Adjectives). Hasty, hurried, precipitate, scrambling, etc., headlong, boisterous, impetuous, brusque, slapdash, cursory.