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loafer vs drone

drone vs loafer

loafer and drone both are nouns.

loafer is not a verb while drone is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
loafer Yes No No No
drone Yes No Yes No
As nouns, drone is a hyponym of loafer; that is, drone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than loafer:
  • loafer: person who does no work
  • drone: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Other hyponyms of loafer include clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope, dawdler, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer, 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.
loafer (noun) drone (noun)
person who does no work stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
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
loafer (verb) drone (verb)
talk in a monotonous voice
make a monotonous low dull sound
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