lazy
//ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)//
Forms
- Comparative
- lazier
- Superlative
- laziest
- Plural
- lazies
- present (v1)
- lazy
- past (v2)
- lazied
- past participle (v3)
- lazied
- present participle
- lazying
- 3rd person singular
- lazies
Definitions
1.Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
- "I'm too lazy," he said. "My wife says I'm the laziest man in all Oz, and she is a truthful woman. I hate work of any kind, and making a raft is hard work."
2.Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
3.Showing a lack of effort or care.
- So it was this beautiful young woman Rokoff had been persecuting. Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.
4.Sluggish; slow-moving.
- We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
1.To laze, act in a lazy manner.(informal)
- “Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living, don’t lazy away your time here!”
- That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.
1.A lazy person.
- The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind, wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4803
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”).