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
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.
• Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.
• (unwilling to work): bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy
• See also lazy
lazy (third-person singular simple present lazies, present participle lazying, simple past and past participle lazied)
(informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
