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LAZY
faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
(adjective) 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”
lazy
(adjective) moving slowly and gently; “up a lazy river”; “lazy white clouds”; “at a lazy pace”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
lazy (comparative lazier, superlative laziest)
Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
Showing a lack of effort or care.
Sluggish; slow-moving.
Lax
Droopy.
(optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
(of a, cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
(comptheory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
(UK, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
Usage notes
• Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.
Synonyms
• (unwilling to work): bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy
• See also lazy
Verb
lazy (third-person singular simple present lazies, present participle lazying, simple past and past participle lazied)
(informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
Noun
lazy (plural lazies)
A lazy person.
(obsolete) Sloth (animal).
Source: Wiktionary
La"zy, a. [Compar. Lazier; superl. Laziest.] Etym: [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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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