Usually means: Extreme slowness; laziness; slow animal.
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  1. sloth: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sloth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sloth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sloth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sloth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sloth, sloth: Wordnik
  7. sloth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sloth: Wiktionary
  9. sloth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sloth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sloth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sloth: Dictionary.com
  13. sloth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sloth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sloth(animal), Sloth (Fullmetal Alchemist), Sloth (comics), Sloth (deadly sin), Sloth (disambiguation), Sloth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sloth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sloth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sloth: Rhymezone
  19. Sloth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sloth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sloth: Free Dictionary
  22. sloth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sloth: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sloth(animal), Sloth (animal), Sloth (deadly sin), Sloth (sin), sloth: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sloth(animal), Sloth (animal), Sloth (sin), sloth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sloth(animal), Sloth (animal), Sloth (deadly sin), sloth: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sloth: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sloth (the dance), The Sloth: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See slothing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
noun:  (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
noun:  (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive, transitive) To be idle; to idle (away time).

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