drone vs stick-in-the-mud

drone and stick-in-the-mud both are nouns.

drone is not an adjective while stick-in-the-mud is an adjective.

drone is a verb but stick-in-the-mud is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drone	Yes	No	Yes	No
stick-in-the-mud	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, stick-in-the-mud is a hyponym of drone; that is, stick-in-the-mud is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drone:

drone: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
stick-in-the-mud: someone who moves slowly

Other hyponyms of drone include lingerer, loiterer, plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, potterer, putterer, straggler, strayer.

drone (noun)	stick-in-the-mud (noun)
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen	someone who moves slowly
a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
an unchanging intonation
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

drone (adjective)	stick-in-the-mud (adjective)
	(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

drone (verb)	stick-in-the-mud (verb)
talk in a monotonous voice
make a monotonous low dull sound

drone vs stick-in-the-mud

drone and stick-in-the-mud both are nouns.

drone is not an adjective while stick-in-the-mud is an adjective.

drone is a verb but stick-in-the-mud is not a verb.

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