What is the meaning of the word lazy

Adjective



a lazy child who avoided household chores



I should have done more work this weekend, but I was feeling lazy.



a hawk flying in lazy circles

Verb



a good afternoon to spend lazying on the back porch

Recent Examples on the Web



The resort has one of the largest water parks in the Caribbean, with tubes, 14 monster slides, splash pads, and lazy rivers, along with three kid-friendly infinity pools.


Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2023





The fun continues outside with a swimming pool, lazy river, an artificial volcano, a tiki bar, and a water slide that’s centered around a gigantic movie screen.


Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023





The community will also feature a major amenity area with a lazy river and pool complex, numerous indoor and outdoor social gathering areas, a creative play structure and a fitness center.


Mosaic, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023





View Photos The sixteen-valve Scirocco has enough punch to rocket by lazy dawdlers on a two-lane road, accelerate up a short ramp to freeway speed, or provide as much pleasure going up a mountain road as the eight-valve Scirocco can provide going down one.


Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023





In addition to the beach, the resort is home to a wave pool with 6-foot waves, a lazy river, swimming pools and more.


Tamara Gane, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023





In August 2020, Michael R. Caputo, then the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, described C.D.C. scientists as lazy and as traitors engaging in sedition.


Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023





We’re terrified of being seen as lazy.


Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023





Greensboro, Georgia Courtesy image The backyard of this organic-modern four-bedroom on Lake Oconee has a pool with a hot tub, lazy river, waterslide, waterfall, firepits, and cave.


The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Feb. 2023



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Other forms: laziest; lazier

While lazy actually means being averse to work or avoiding it, it can also be used to describe something slow-moving or unenergetic, like when you stroll down the garden path with a lazy gait, not in a hurry to get anywhere.

The adjective lazy is thought to come from the Low German lasich, meaning «idle or languid.» You were offended at being called lazy, but you just didn’t have the energy to defend yourself. After all, who doesn’t enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon? Former President of Poland Lech Walesa once considered the benefits of being lazy when he said, “It’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.»

Definitions of lazy

  1. adjective

    disinclined to work or exertion

    “too
    lazy to wash the dishes”

    synonyms:

    faineant, indolent, otiose, slothful, work-shy

    idle

    not in action or at work

  2. adjective

    moving slowly and gently

    “up a
    lazy river”

    lazy white clouds”

    “at a
    lazy pace”

    Synonyms:

    slow

    not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

  1. lazyadjective

    moving slowly and gently

    «up a lazy river»; «lazy white clouds»; «at a lazy pace»

  2. faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shyadjective

    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»

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

  1. lazyadjective

    Unwilling to do work or make an effort.

    Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

  2. lazyadjective

    Requiring little or no effort.

  3. lazyadjective

    Relaxed or leisurely.

    I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

  4. lazyadjective

    Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.

  5. lazyadjective

    Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.

  6. lazyadjective

    Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.

    a lazy algorithm

  7. Etymology: 1540, origin uncertain, but probably of origin, from lasich «lazy» from las, lasich «slack, feeble» from lasiwaz, from las-. Akin to leuzig «lazy», lasinn «limpy, tired, weak», lysu «false, evil, base». More at lush.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. LAZYadjective

    Etymology: This word is derived by a correspondent, with great probability, from al’aise, French; but it is however Teutonick: lijser in Danish, and losigh in Dutch, have the same meaning; and Henry Spelman gives this account of the word:

    1, Idle; sluggish; unwilling to work.

    Our soldiers, like the night-owl’s lazy flight,
    Or like a lazy thrasher with a flail,
    Fall gently down, as if they struck their friends.
    William Shakespeare.

    Wicked condemned men will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and spend victuals.
    Francis Bacon.

    Whose lazy waters without motion lay.
    Wentworth Dillon.

    The lazy glutton safe at home will keep,
    Indulge his sloth, and batten with his sleep.
    Dryden.

    Like Eastern kings a lazy state they keep,
    And close confin’d in their own palace sleep.
    Alexander Pope.

    What amazing stupidity is it, for men to be negligent of salvation themselves? to sit down lazy and unactive.
    John Rogers.

    2. Slow; tedious.

    The ordinary method for recruiting their armies, was now too dull and lazy an expedient to resist this torrent.
    Edward Hyde.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Lazy

    disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work

  2. Lazy

    inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream

  3. Lazy

    wicked; vicious

FreebaseRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

  1. Lazy

    «Lazy» is a song by Deep Purple from their 1972 album Machine Head. A live performance of the song can be found on the album Made in Japan, released later the same year.
    The song starts out as an instrumental, keyboardist Jon Lord plays an overdriven Hammond organ intro, followed by the main riff and with the solo swapping between him and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Vocalist Ian Gillan comes in with the vocals later in the song. He also uses harmonica both on the studio version and live. At over 7 minutes long, it is the longest track on the album, and live versions were often extended past 10 minutes.
    The live version on Made in Japan features a theme from Hugo Alfvén’s «Swedish Rhapsody #1», played by Ritchie Blackmore as a part of his solo. Additionally, Jon Lord includes the riff from the C Jam Blues in the intro. Ritchie Blackmore would sometimes include the main riff from «Lazy» in live performances of the song «Man on the Silver Mountain» by Rainbow. Gillan defined the song as rhythm and blues.
    Later live performances after the band’s reunion in 1984 tended to be much shorter, cutting out the intro and one of the verses. However, more recent performances with Steve Morse have gone back to the original arrangement.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Lazy

    lā′zi, adj. disinclined to exertion: averse to labour: sluggish: tedious.—v.i. Laze, to be lazy.—adv. Lā′zily.—ns. Lā′ziness, state or quality of being lazy; Lā′zy-bed, a bed for growing potatoes, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides; Lā′zybones (coll.), a lazy person, an idler; Lā′zy-jack, a jack constructed of compound levers pivoted together; Lā′zy-pin′ion (see Idle-wheel).—n.pl. Lā′zy-tongs, tongs consisting of a series of diagonal levers pivoted together at the middle and ends, capable of being extended by a movement of the scissors-like handles so as to pick up objects at a distance. [M. E. lasche—O. Fr. lasche (Fr. lâche), slack, weak, base—L. laxus, loose.]

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘lazy’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #4747

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lazy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lazy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of lazy in a Sentence

  1. Sipho P Nkosi:

    If you are lazy to do it for yourself, then lift others.

  2. Justin Paperny:

    Don’t pay for services, like paying someone to do your job. Are you so lazy you can not do your prison job ? That is incredibly off-putting to those who will do it, i got a call six months ago from a woman whose husband is serving time in a medium security prison who cut in line.

  3. Ruth Hay:

    I grew up being called lazy in periods of time when I wasn’t, if you look at a list of all the various ADHD symptoms, I have all of them to one degree or another, but the only ones ever discussed with me was you might be less focused and more fidgety.

  4. Greg Schmidt:

    My dad invited Rudy Kalman to give a lecture at Ames, and when he did, Dad had an epiphany, rudy Kalman had written a paper about a theoretical’ linear’ solution to estimating a vehicle’s location and speed. The problem was that this was a fundamentally’ nonlinear’ problem ; that’s like the difference in complexity between floating down a lazy river and going over a waterfall, where your motion becomes chaotic and unpredictable. My dad then developed the equations for how to solve this nonlinear problem — a major extension of Kalman’s work.

  5. George Orwell:

    All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

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Translations for lazy

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  • luiAfrikaans
  • كسلانArabic
  • лянівыBelarusian
  • ленивBulgarian
  • mandrós, peresósCatalan, Valencian
  • línýCzech
  • dovenDanish
  • faulGerman
  • kuviaEwe
  • τεμπέληςGreek
  • mallaborema, pigraEsperanto
  • flojo, locho, perezoso, haragán, vagoSpanish
  • laisk, logardlikEstonian
  • لس, تَنبَل, تنبلPersian
  • makaava, laiska, rauhallinen, unelias, helppo, karsastavaFinnish
  • dovin, laturFaroese
  • paresseuxFrench
  • leisciúilIrish
  • leisgScottish Gaelic
  • עָצֵלHebrew
  • आलसीHindi
  • lustaHungarian
  • ծույլArmenian
  • malasIndonesian
  • pigroItalian
  • ナマケモノ, 怠惰, ぐうたらJapanese
  • ზარმაციGeorgian
  • 게으른Korean
  • ته‌ممه‌ڵKurdish
  • piger, ignavus, segnisLatin
  • мрзливMacedonian
  • आळशीMarathi
  • luiDutch
  • leniwyPolish
  • preguiçosoPortuguese
  • leneș, indolent, puturosRomanian
  • лени́вый, амблиопи, затуманенное зрениеRussian
  • अलसःSanskrit
  • lenj, лијен, лењ, lijen, лен, lenSerbo-Croatian
  • lenivýSlovak
  • lénSlovene
  • dembel, përtacAlbanian
  • slö, lat, sömnig, slappSwedish
  • legevu, mlegevuSwahili
  • సోమరి, బద్ధకంTelugu
  • เกียจคร้านThai
  • tembelTurkish
  • леда́чий, ліни́вийUkrainian
  • آلسی, سستUrdu
  • lười biếng, lườiVietnamese

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прилагательное

- ленивый

lazy person — ленивый человек; бездельник; лентяйка
a lazy river — лениво текущая река
to spend a lazy afternoon — провести лень в ничегонеделании
he is lazy about getting up — он ленив /ленится/ вставать

- располагающий к лени (о погоде, обстановке и т. п.)

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Словосочетания

bone-lazy fellow — бездельник; лоботряс; лодырь  
lazy bugger — крайне медлительный человек; бездельник; лентяй  
a lazy dog — лентяй  
lazy eyes — затуманенное зрение; амблиопия  
lazy flame — слабый факел  
lazy chain — цепь с крюком  
lazy man’s load — огромная охапка (которую трудно донести, но легко рассыпать)  

Примеры с переводом

Basically, I’m just lazy.

По правде говоря, мне просто лень.

She was too lazy to wash the dishes.

Ей было лень мыть посуду.

That lazy boy needs shaking up.

Этого лентяя нужно расшевелить.

It is easy to relapse into lazy habits.

Очень легко привыкнуть к лени.

With children as lazy as these, you have to beat the facts in.

Когда вы имеете дело с такими лентяями, вам приходится буквально вколачивать в них знания.

We beguiled our journey with lazy talk.

За нашей неспешной беседой путешествие прошло незаметно.

You have to beat the facts into these lazy children.

Вам приходится буквально вколачивать знания в этих лентяев.

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

We spent lazy days relaxing on the beach.

…despite what his athletic leanings might suggest, he was actually a very lazy kid…

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Формы слова

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): lazier
прев. степ. (superlative): laziest

Britannica Dictionary definition of LAZY

disapproving

:

not liking to work hard or to be active

  • a lazy child who avoided household chores

  • I should have done more work this weekend, but I was feeling lazy.

always used before a noun

:

not having much activity

:

causing people to feel that they do not want to be active

  • a lazy summer day

always used before a noun

:

moving slowly

  • a hawk flying in lazy circles

  • a lazy river

— lazily

/ˈleɪzəli/

adverb

  • The leaves floated lazily down the stream.

— laziness

/ˈleɪzinəs/

noun

[noncount]

  • Her parents blame her bad grades on laziness.

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  • Lazy Y U — Lugar designado por el censo de los Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

  • Lazy — can refer to: * Laziness, the lack of desire to expend effort * Łazy, a town in Poland (and other places in Poland with the same name) * Lazy (Orlová), a former village now part of the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic * Lazy (song), by Suede… …   Wikipedia

  • Lazy ML — (LML) is a functional programming language developed in the early 1980s by Lennart Augustsson and Thomas Johnsson at Chalmers University of Technology, prior to Miranda and Haskell. LML is a strongly typed, statically scoped language with lazy… …   Wikipedia

  • Lazy — bezeichnet Lazy, Ortsteil von Orlová, Okres Karvina, Tschechien Lazy, Ortsteil von Lázně Kynžvart, Okres Cheb, Tschechien Lazy, Stadtviertel von Zlín, Okres Zlín, Tschechien siehe auch Łazy (Begriffsklärung) Lázy …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • lazy — lazy, indolent, slothful, faineant are comparable primarily as applied to persons, their powers, movements, and actions, but also in some degree to things. All mean not easily aroused to action or activity. Lazy especially when applied to persons …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Lazy — 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Lázy — ist der Name mehrerer Orte in Tschechien Lázy , Ortsteil von Městečko Trnávka, Okres Svitavy Lázy, Ortsteil von Loučka, Okres Vsetín; siehe Lázy (Loučka) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Lazy-i — is an online music magazine of Tim McMahan that includes feature interviews, reviews and news. The focus is on the indie music scene on national bands as well as local music in the Omaha, Nebraska area. The articles are also featured in a weekly… …   Wikipedia

  • lazy — (adj.) 1540s, laysy, of unknown origin. Replaced native slack, slothful, and idle as the main word expressing the notion of averse to work. In 19c. thought to be from LAY (Cf. lay) (v.) as tipsy from tip. Skeat is responsible for the prevailing… …   Etymology dictionary

  • lazy — [lā′zē] adj. lazier, laziest [Early ModE, prob. < MLowG or MDu, as in MLowG lasich, slack, loose < IE les , slack, tired, akin to base * lēi : see LATE] 1. not eager or willing to work or exert oneself; indolent; slothful 2. slow and heavy; …   English World dictionary

  • lazy — UK US /ˈleɪzi/ adjective ► not willing to work hard or make an effort: »His line manager felt that he was brilliant but lazy …   Financial and business terms

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (slack, feeble, lazy),[1][2] from las, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (feeble, weak), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (weak).

Akin to Dutch leuzig (lazy), Old Norse lasinn (limpy, tired, weak), Old English lesu, lysu (false, evil, base). More at lush.

An alternate etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays +‎ -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈleɪzi/
  • Rhymes: -eɪzi

Adjective[edit]

lazy (comparative lazier, superlative laziest)

  1. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.

    Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

    • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray’s-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:
      If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
    • 1913, L. Frank Baum, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., published c. 1920, page 308:

      «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.
    lazy writing
  4. Sluggish; slow-moving.

    We strolled along beside a lazy stream.

  5. Lax:
    1. Droopy.

      a lazy-eared rabbit

    2. (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
  6. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
    Coordinate term: flying
    • 2010, The Trail Drivers of Texas
      There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world.
    • 2002, American Cowboy (volume 9, number 3, page 60)
      The Zuliagas branded a Lazy B. In order to distinguish his cows from theirs for the drive back to Arizona, Mr. Day added a britchen brand across their butts, under their tails.
  7. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.

    a lazy algorithm

  8. (UK, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
    • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd
      The swilland dropsy enter in
      The lazy cuke , and swell his skin

Synonyms[edit]

  • (unwilling to work): bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy
  • See also Thesaurus:lazy

Derived terms[edit]

  • laze
  • lazily
  • laziness
  • lazy eight
  • lazy evaluation
  • lazy eye
  • lazy Kate
  • lazy Lawrence
  • lazy S
  • lazy Susan
  • lazybones
  • lazyitis
  • the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Collocations[edit]

with nouns

  • lazy person
  • lazy man
  • lazy woman
  • lazy bastard
  • lazy morning
  • lazy day
  • lazy time
  • lazy way

Translations[edit]

unwilling to work

  • Afrikaans: lui (af)
  • Albanian: përtac (sq), dembel (sq)
  • Arabic: كَسْلَان(kaslān)
    Egyptian Arabic: كسلان(kaslān)
  • Armenian: ծույլ (hy) (cuyl)
  • Assamese: এলেহুৱা (elehua), লেধা (ledha)
  • Azerbaijani: tənbəl (az), ərincək
  • Bashkir: ялҡау (yalqaw)
  • Basque: nagi
  • Bavarian: gstinkert
  • Belarusian: ляні́вы (ljanívy)
  • Bengali: অলস (bn) (oloś), চিঙ্গা (ciṅga)
  • Bikol Central: hugakon (bcl)
  • Breton: lezireg
  • Bulgarian: лени́в (bg) (lenív), мързели́в (bg) m (mǎrzelív)
  • Buryat: залхуу (zalxuu)
  • Catalan: mandrós (ca), peresós (ca)
  • Cebuano: tapolan
  • Cherokee: ᎦᎾᎵ (ganali)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: (laan5)
    Mandarin: 懶惰懒惰 (zh) (lǎnduò),  (zh) (lǎn)
    Min Dong:  (zh) (lan)
  • Chukchi: нывъяӄэн (nyvʺjaqėn)
  • Cornish: diek, syger
  • Crimean Tatar: erinçek, tenbel
  • Czech: líný (cs) m
  • Danish: doven (da), lad
  • Dutch: lui (nl), werkschuw (nl)
  • Elfdalian: lat
  • Esperanto: pigra, mallaborema
  • Estonian: laisk (et), logardlik
  • Ewe: kuvia
  • Faroese: latur, dovin
  • Finnish: laiska (fi)
  • French: paresseux (fr), fainéant (fr)
  • Gagauz: dembel
  • Galician: arlote m, bacaceiro m, lacazán (gl) m, larchán m, preguiceiro (gl) m, nugallán (gl) m, macandón m, mandrión m, manguán m, loirán m, peilao m
  • Georgian: ზარმაცი (zarmaci)
  • German: faul (de)
  • Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (lats)
  • Greek: τεμπέλης (el) (tempélis)
  • Greenlandic: eqiattarpoq
  • Guaraní: kaigue
  • Hebrew: עָצֵל (he) m (ʻatsel)
  • Higaonon: tapulan
  • Hindi: आलसी (hi) (ālsī), सुस्त (hi) (sust)
  • Hungarian: lusta (hu), rest (hu)
  • Hunsrik: faul
  • Icelandic: latur (is)
  • Indonesian: malas (id)
  • Irish: leisciúil, anábhailleach, drogallach, sámh
  • Italian: pigro (it)
  • Japanese: ナマケモノ (ja) (namakemono), 怠惰な (ja) (たいだな, taida na), ぐうたら (gūtara)
  • Khmer: ខ្ជិល (km) (khcɨl)
  • Korean: 게으르다 (ko) (geeureuda)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: تەممەڵ(temmell)
  • Ladino: haragan, peresozo, tembel
  • Latin: ignavus, piger, segnis
  • Latvian: laisks
  • Lithuanian: tingus
  • Luxembourgish: faul, liddereg (lb)
  • Macedonian: мрзлив (mrzliv)
  • Malay: malas (ms)
  • Maltese: għażżien
  • Mansi: савыӈ (sawyň)
  • Manx: drollaneagh
  • Maori: huhure, mākoko, māngere, pirorehe, toupiore, pakihore, ngehe, makuku, tūkeke, waimori
  • Marathi: आळशी (āḷśī)
  • Meru: muthao
  • Mongolian: залхуу (mn) (zalxuu)
  • Nanai: албакто
  • Norman: ouaîsif (Jersey), pièrcheux (Jersey)
  • Northern Sami: láiki
  • Norwegian:
    Norwegian Bokmål: lat (no), doven (no)
    Norwegian Nynorsk: lat, doven
  • Occitan: ociós, peresós
  • Old English: slāw
  • Persian: تَنبَل (fa) (tanbal), لس (fa) (las)
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: hillie
  • Plautdietsch: mooj, ful
  • Polish: leniwy (pl)
  • Portuguese: preguiçoso (pt)
  • Quechua: qilla
  • Romanian: leneș (ro), puturos (ro), indolent (ro), trândav (ro)
  • Romansch: pigher, marsch
  • Russian: лени́вый (ru) (lenívyj)
  • Sanskrit: अलस (sa) (alasa)
  • Scottish Gaelic: leisg, dìomhain
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: лењ, лен, лије̑н
    Roman: lenj (sh), len (sh), lijȇn (sh)
  • Slovak: lenivý
  • Slovene: lén (sl)
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: gniły, lěniwy
    Upper Sorbian: lěni
  • Spanish: perezoso (es), flojo (es), locho, haragán (es), vago (es)
  • Swahili: legevu
  • Swedish: lat (sv), slö (sv)
  • Tabasaran: темпел (tempel)
  • Tachawit: abexnis (shy)
  • Tagalog: tamad, batugan, patay-patay
  • Tamil: சோம்பல் (ta) (cōmpal)
  • Telugu: సోమరి (te) (sōmari), బద్ధకం (baddhakaṁ)
  • Thai: เกียจคร้าน (th) (gìiat-kráan), ขี้เกียจ (th) (kîi-gìiat)
  • Tibetan: སྒྱིད་ལ་ངན་པོ (sgyid la ngan po)
  • Tocharian B: ālase
  • Tongan: fakapikopiko
  • Turkish: tembel (tr)
  • Ukrainian: ліни́вий (linývyj), леда́чий (ledáčyj)
  • Urdu: آلسی (ur) (ālsī)
  • Vietnamese: lười biếng (vi), lười (vi)
  • Welsh: diog (cy)
  • Yiddish: פֿױל(foyl)
  • Zazaki: tenbel, êmıs

causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely

Verb[edit]

lazy (third-person singular simple present lazies, present participle lazying, simple past and past participle lazied)

  1. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
    • 1842, George Cruikshank, Omnibus, London: Tilt & Bogue, p. 79,[1]
      “Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”
    • 1908, O. Henry, “The Memento” in The Voice of the City, New York: McClure, p. 239,[2]
      That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.

Noun[edit]

lazy (plural lazies)

  1. A lazy person.
    • 1874, David Livingstone, The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death, London: John Murray, Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 159,[3]
      The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.
    • 1898, Jason E. Hammond, “Work and Reward” in Suggestive Programs for Special Day Exercises, Lansing, Michigan: Department of Public Instruction for District Schools, p. ,[4]
      The dudes and noodles, cads and snobs, had better move away,
      This busy land can’t spare the room for lazies, such as they,
      To foreign climate let them go and there forever stay.
      Ours is a land for busy workers.
    • 2016, Marta Bausells and Eleni Stefanou, “Meet the Greek writers revolutionising poetry in the age of austerity,” The Guardian, 11 May, 2016,[5]
      Which myth of the Greek crisis would you like to debunk? — That the Greeks are a nation of lazies on a permanent vacation; that austerity measures, as they were implemented, were proportionally distributed or worth the sacrifice.
  2. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).
    • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, pp. 49-50,[6]
      To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.

References[edit]

  1. ^ “lazy”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ^ “lazy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams[edit]

  • Zyla

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