sleuth

Meanings

Plural: sleuths

Noun

• a detective who follows a trail
• A detective.
• A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
• An animal’s trail or track.
• Slowness; laziness, sloth.
• A group of bears.

Verb

• watch, observe, or inquire secretly
• To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.

Synonyms

detective, dick, gumshoe, idleness, inertia, investigator, laziness, lethargy, private eye, shadow, sleuthhound, sloth, slothfulness, snoop, spy, stag

Related Words

sloth