What is the meaning of the word lazy

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.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

• 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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