Shiftless
['ʃɪftlɪs] or ['ʃɪftləs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; 'a shiftless student'; 'studied in a shiftless way' .
Checker: Lucille--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Portia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Improvident, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Thriftless, improvident, imprudent, wasteful, prodigal
ANT:Provident, prudent, careful,[See SHELTER]
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Examples
- It's a dreadful shiftless one, said aunty. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But to have no time, no place, no order,--all going on in this shiftless way! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The community is eminently Portuguese--that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Such shiftless management, such waste, such confusion, I never saw! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They were chiefly women, colliers' wives of the more shiftless sort. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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