drone

¹drone

noun

Definition of DRONE

1

a lazy person <those drones just lie around while we do all the work>

Synonyms couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, loafer, lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard

Related Words bum, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well; crawler, creeper, dawdler, laggard, putterer, slowpoke, snail, stick-in-the-mud, straggler; clock-watcher, goldbrick, malingerer, shirker, slacker; dallier, lingerer, loiterer, loller, lounger, saunterer; delayer, procrastinator; dropout, quitter

Near Antonyms achiever, comer, highflier (or highflyer); live wire, powerhouse

Antonyms doer, go-ahead, go-getter, hummer, hustler, rustler, self-starter

2

a person who does very hard or dull work <after lunch my fellow drones and I shuffle back to our cubicles>

Synonyms dogsbody [chiefly British], drone, drudge, drudger, fag, foot soldier, grub, grubber, grunt, laborer, peon, plugger, slavey, slogger, toiler, worker

Related Words workhorse; coolie, serf

Near Antonyms goldbrick, shirker; drone, idler, lazybones, loafer, slouch, slug, sluggard