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bum - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: bum
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beggar
Synonyms: black sheep*, derelict, drifter, hobo, stiff*, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant, bindle, floater, gutterpup, guttersnipe
Notes: a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work
Main Entry: animal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animate being; mammal
Synonyms: beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, mutt*, pet, stray, critter, invertebrate, living thing, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing
Antonyms: plant, mineral
Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fake, forgery
Synonyms: actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, phony, pseudo, reproduction, sell*, sham, junque, put-on, simulacrum
Antonyms: reality, real thing
Main Entry: deadbeat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freeloader
Synonyms: bum, debtor, leech, loafer, parasite, sponge, moocher
Main Entry: deceptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright
Main Entry: derelict
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: destitute or down-and-out person
Synonyms: beggar, bum, castaway, dawdler, drifter, floater, grifter, hobo, ne'er-do-well, outcast, renegade, skidrow bum, stiff, stumblebum, tramp, vagabond, vagrant
Main Entry: do-nothing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lazy person
Synonyms: bum, couch potato*, couch potato, deadbeat, good-for-nothing, idler, laggard, loafer, malingerer, shirker, slacker, sloth, clock watcher, goof-off, goof-off, layabout, lazy person, lazybones, lotus eater, lounger, moocher, sponger
Main Entry: enthusiast
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person active in interest
Synonyms: addict, admirer, aficionado, believer, buff, bug*, bum*, devotee, eccentric, fan, fanatic, follower, freak, habitué, lover, maniac, nut*, optimist, participant, partisan, supporter, votary, worshiper, zealot, monomaniac, rooter
Antonyms: critic, detractor, pessimist
Main Entry: good-for-nothing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is idle, worthless
Synonyms: bad lot, black sheep*, bum, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, profligate, rapscallion, scalawag, scamp, tramp, vagabond, waster, wastrel
Antonyms: hard worker
Main Entry: hobo
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: homeless person
Synonyms: beggar, bum, derelict, drifter, migrant worker, street person, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wino
Main Entry: hum
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: buzz, vibrate
Synonyms: bum, bumble, croon, drone, moan, mumble, murmur, purr, rustle, sing, sound, strum, throb, trill, warble, whir, whisper, zoom, bombilate, bombinate, sing low, thrum
Main Entry: leech
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: parasite
Synonyms: barnacle, bloodsucker*, bum*, freeloader, sponge*, sycophant, scrounger
Main Entry: loaf
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be idle, lazy
Synonyms: bum*, dally, dillydally*, dream, drift, evade, fool around*, idle, kill time*, let down, lie, loiter, loll, lounge, malinger, relax, saunter, shirk, slack, stall, stroll, trifle, vegetate, waste time, be inactive, be indolent, be slothful, be unoccupied, bum around, fritter away, goldbrick, hang out*, knock around, laze, lounge around, not lift a finger, pass time, piddle, sit around, slow down, stand around, take it easy, twiddle thumbs, while away hours
Antonyms: achieve, do, energize, labor, work hard
Main Entry: loll
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lay sprawled
Synonyms: bum, dangle, dawdle, droop, drop, flap, flop, goof off, hang, idle, lean, loaf, loiter, lounge, recline, relax, rest, sag, slouch, slump, sprawl, hang loose, laze
Antonyms: sit up straight
Main Entry: lounge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie about, waste time
Synonyms: bum*, dawdle, goof off*, idle, kill time*, loaf, loiter, loll*, recline, relax, repose, saunter, sprawl, fritter away, goldbrick, laze, pass time, take it easy
Antonyms: do, hustle
Main Entry: mooch
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cadge
Synonyms: beg, borrow, bum*, scrounge, sponge, bumoff, freeload, leach off
Main Entry: ne' er-do-well
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irresponsible person
Synonyms: bum*, good-for-nothing, idler, loafer, wastrel, lazybones, sloucher
Main Entry: nuisance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: annoyance; annoying person
Synonyms: blister, bore, bother, bum*, creep, drag*, drip*, exasperation, frump, gadfly, headache*, inconvenience, infliction, insect*, irritant, irritation, louse, nag*, nudge*, offense, pain, pain in the neck*, pest, pester, pill*, plague, problem, terror, trouble, vexation, besetment, botheration, botherment, pesterer, poor excuse
Antonyms: delight, happiness, pleasantry, pleasure
Main Entry: outcast
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is unwanted, not accepted
Synonyms: bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, gypsy, hobo*, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, reprobate, tramp, untouchable, vagabond, vagrant, wretch, deportee
Antonyms: favorite, friend, idol
Main Entry: panhandle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: beg
Synonyms: ask alms, bum*, cadge*, freeload*, hit up, hold out one's hand, hustle, live hand to mouth, mooch*, pass the hat, scrounge, solicit charity, sponge*
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