lazy
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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”).
Akin to Dutch leuzig (“lazy”), Old Norse lasinn (“limpy, tired, weak”), Old English lesu, lysu (“false, evil, base”). More at lush.
An alternative 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.
Base: lays
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: lazier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: laziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lazies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lazying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lazied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lazied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lazies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
pos: adj
examples: Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
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.
"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."
gloss: Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
pos: adj
examples: I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
gloss: Showing a lack of effort or care.
pos: adj
examples: lazy writing
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.
gloss: Sluggish; slow-moving.
pos: adj
examples: We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
gloss: Lax:
pos: adj
examples: a lazy-eared rabbit
gloss: Lax:
pos: adj
gloss: Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
pos: adj
examples: There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world.
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.
gloss: Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
pos: adj
examples: a lazy algorithm
gloss: Wicked; vicious.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: The swilland dropsy enter in
The lazy cuke , and swell his skin
gloss: To laze, act in a lazy manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: “Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”
You’d see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her […]
That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.
gloss: A lazy person.
pos: noun
examples: 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. ,
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.
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.
gloss: Sloth (animal).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
Synonyms: fainéant
inert
lackadaisical
lazy
lither
otiose
sluggish
swear
torpid
Antonyms: active
diligent
industrious
Related words: laziness
idler
doer
slow
shirk
Derived words: laze
lazily
laziness
lazy 8
lazy-arse
lazy as Ludlam's dog
lazy ass
lazy-ass
lazyback
lazy battery effect
lazy-bed
lazy bed
lazy bones
lazybones
lazyboots
lazyboy
lazybutt
lazy daisy
lazy dog
lazy dog bomb
lazy eight
lazy evaluation
lazy eye
lazy girl job
lazy initialisation
lazy initialization
lazyish
lazyitis
lazy jack
lazy jacks
lazy Kate
lazy Laurence
lazy Lawrence
lazyload
lazy load
lazy lobster
lazy louse
lazy man's load
lazy painter
lazy pierogi
lazy pinion
lazy river
lazy S
lazy susan
lazy Susan
lazy susans
lazy tongs
lazyweb
nonlazy
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
unlazy
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