Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Literally, do-nothing; specifically, an epithet applied to the later Merovingian kings of France, who were puppets in the hands of the mayors of the palace.
- n. A do-nothing; a lazy, shiftless fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. An irresponsible or lazy person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Doing nothing; shiftless; disinclined to work or exertion.
- n. A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. disinclined to work or exertion
Etymologies
- From Old French fay neant, alteration of feignant ("idler"), present participle of feindre, modelled on fait ("does") + neant ("nothing"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This is no Bonaparte, but a roi faineant, paraded at the head of an army he has no capacity to lead.”
“Surtout de devoir ressupporter ce regard qui dit "t'es en trop chez nous on te foutrai bien dehors espece de sale faineant de merde”
“En plus cette annee j'avais evité de demander un amenagement des horaires pour pas passer pour un faineant et pouf!!”
“On ne peut pas dire que je sois faineant, ni pas entreprnant!”
“Mais on s'en fout personne ne me croyait puisque j'etait un faineant affalé sur sa chaise de cours ...”
“Mais bon voila j'etais faineant et certainement pas narco puisque je ne m'endormais pas du tout d'un seul coup.”
“Je veux qu'on dise UNE CAUSE psychologique parce que la Narco est invisible, je suis passé du statut d'adolescent depressif suicidaire a l'alcoolique au fumeur de joint et faineant irrecuperable mais j'etais rien de tout ca!!”
“Ce qui st bien pendant les vacances c que tous les organisme a faineant sont vide et donc les pas faineant peuvent venir tranquil!!”
“En fait, je crois que l'été c la seule periode ou les gens que tu croisent a l'anpe et autre truc comme ca, sont des gens serieux et pas des faineant qu'essaie de grapiller toutes les aides possible!”
“Je sais qu'j'en ai besoin et d'un autre coté ca tiraille dans l'sens 'faineant faineant tu profites profites!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘faineant’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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avfordomd's list
lexicon
copacetic, amiable, philanthropic, misanthropic, gregarious, vehement, parcel, congregate, paucity, passel, multitudinous, pulchritudinous and 98 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Tricky Words from French
Loanwords from French -- both established and wet behind the ears -- that are tricky to spell or pronounce properly.
trompe l'oeil, hors d'oeuvre, oeuvre, objet d'art, objet trouvé, contretemps, milieu, métier, mise en scène, mise en place, éclat, faineant and 64 more...
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motley assortment
a motley crew of words i enjoy
sense datum sensa..., sense datum, sens..., sense datum, sensate, potete, golpe, herrero, sapidity, synaesthesia, cicisbeo, dandiprat, faineant and 19 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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Unsavoury Types
insults, epithets, etc.
drotchel, drossel, drazel, flutch, lollard, scobberlotcher, ragabash, faineant, cad, buffoon, martinet, tosspot and 116 more...
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To Learn
enervate, redolent, distaff, approbation, arrogate, bonhomie, palliate, calumny, panoply, contumacious, edify, dyspeptic and 188 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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slumry a sluggard Aug 1, 2007