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lazy ()

adjective -·zi·er, -·zi·est

  1. not eager or willing to work or exert oneself; indolent; slothful
  2. slow and heavy; sluggish a lazy river
  3. tending to cause laziness a lazy day
  4. ☆ designating or of a letter or figure placed on its side in a livestock brand

Etymology: Early ModE, prob. < MLowG or MDu, as in MLowG lasich, slack, loose < IE les-, slack, tired, akin to base *lēi-: see late

intransitive verb, transitive verb -·zied, -·zy·ing

laze

lazy Related Forms
la·zily adverb la·zi·ness noun
lazy Synonyms

lazy

modif.

  1. Indolent

    indolent, slothful, idle, slack, remiss, laggard, sluggish, heavy-footed, lagging, apathetic, loafing, dallying, languid, passive, asleep on the job, procrastinating, neglectful, unconcerned, indifferent, dilatory, tardy, inattentive, careless, unready, unpersevering, lethargic, lifeless, flagging, logy*, weary, tired, supine, lackadaisical; see also listless 1.

    Antonyms active*, businesslike, indefatigable.

  2. Slow

    slothful, inactive, lethargic; see dull 6, slow 1, 2.

lazy Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • descibe: So there you have it __________________ " Obsessed is a word used by the lazy to descibe the dedicated "
  • bother: P Thinking about it, the cat is much too lazy to bother with this sort of thing.
  • walk: It was a shame Russ and Chris were too lazy to walk up the hill to take some film.
  • write: I'm just too lazy to write much today - my perennial problem.

Modifies a noun

  • git: Don't be a lazy git and fire off an email asking us to find it for you without even trying yourself.
  • sod: There's nothing wrong with being a lazy sod!
  • bastard: I didn't actually read it all, because I am a lazy bastard.
  • ass: The simple truth is, I've been a lazy ass!
  • bugger: At the moment on a gap year as I messed up my A ' Levels by being a lazy bugger.
  • bum: I finally got tired of the open windows in Opera so I got off my lazy bum and posted them.

Modifying Another Word

  • intellectually: He writes ' It goes against the grain for a scientist to be so intellectually lazy.
  • too: Or are they just too lazy to actually pull the chain?
  • inherently: The real difficulty was probably that I was inherently lazy!
  • damn: Pass this list of banks onto Mr Bord at once and tell him to stop being so damn lazy.
  • incredibly: Once again, it would seem intellectually incredibly lazy to treat these astonishing facts as merely a happy accident.
  • plain: Main changes - NS to Redditch is down to once every half-hour, which is just plain lazy.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: If you are feeling lazy, a local chef can be booked to come to the villa to prepare and cook dinner for you.
  • seem: The waitress staff could use a bit of polishing and in some cases seemed lazy.
  • become: There are several ways to avoid an eye becoming lazy.
  • get: Then Ferguson got rich, he got lazy, he joined New Labor, he forgot about his roots.
lazy Quotes

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

—Sandys, George

Daisy and Lily, Lazy and silly, Walk by the shore of the wan grass sea,ö Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree.

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa

His lazy, long, lascivious reign.

—Defoe, Daniel

It is the responsibility of the poet to be lazy to hang out and prophesy.

—Paley, Grace ne¤  e  Goodside

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