About The Word Lazy
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Lazy
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What's The Definition Of Lazy?
[adj] disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
[adj] moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace" Synonyms | Synonyms for Lazy: faineant | idle | indolent | otiose | slothful | slow | work-shy Related Terms | Find terms related to Lazy: airy | ambling | backward | bone-lazy | bum | bum around | cadging | careless | casual | cautious | circumspect | claudicant | comatose | crawling | creeping | creeping like snail | cursory | dallying | degage | delaying | deliberate | dilatory | dillydallying | disregardant | disregardful | do nothing | doless | do-nothing | dronish | drony | easy | easygoing | ergophobic | faineant | faltering | flagging | flippant | foot-dragging | forgetful | free and easy | gentle | goldbrick | good-for-nothing | goof off | gradual | halting | hang around | heedless | hobbled | hobbling | idle | inactive | inconsiderate | indifferent | indolent | inert | insouciant | lackadaisical | laggard | lagging | languid | languorous | lax | laze | leisurely | lethargic | lie around | limping | lingering | listless | loaf | loiter | loiter about | loitering | loll | loll around | lollop around | lounge | lounge around | lumbering | Micawberish | moderate | mooch around | moon | moon around | neglectful | negligent | nonaggressive | oblivious | offhand | otiose | parasitic | passive | perfunctory | poking | poky | procrastinating | procrastinative | procrastinatory | reckless | regardless | relaxed | reluctant | remiss | respectless | sauntering | scrounging | shiftless | shuffling | sit around | slack | slothful | slouch | slouch around | slow | slow as death | slow as molasses | slow as slow | slow-crawling | slow-foot | slow-going | slow-legged | slow-moving | slow-paced | slow-poky | slow-running | slow-sailing | slow-stepped | sluggish | snaillike | snail-paced | sponging | staggering | stand around | strolling | supine | tactless | tentative | thoughtless | toddling | torpid | tortoiselike | tottering | trifling | trudging | turtlelike | undiplomatic | unenterprising | unheedful | unheeding | unhurried | unmindful | unprepared | unready | unsolicitous | untactful | unthinking | waddling | work-shy See Also | Lazy In Webster's Dictionary \La"zy\, a. [Compar. {Lazier}; superl. {Laziest}.] [OE.
lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L.
lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.]
1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle;
shirking work. --Bacon.
2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
``The night owl's lazy flight.'' --Shak.
3. Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --B. Jonson.
{Lazy tongs}, a system of jointed bars capable of great
extension, originally made for picking up something at a
distance, now variously applied in machinery.
Syn: Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See {Idle}.
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