do-nothing vs trailer

trailer vs do-nothing

do-nothing and trailer both are nouns.

do-nothing is an adjective but trailer is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
do-nothing	Yes	Yes	No	No
trailer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trailer is a hyponym of do-nothing; that is, trailer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than do-nothing:

do-nothing: person who does no work
trailer: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

Other hyponyms of do-nothing include clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope, dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, daydreamer, woolgatherer, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account, lazybones, lie-abed, slugabed, loon, shirker, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.

do-nothing (noun)	trailer (noun)
person who does no work	a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy
	a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor
	an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future
	someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

do-nothing (adjective)	trailer (adjective)
characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility

Difference between do-nothing and trailer

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