Word Frequency
lazy (ˈleɪzɪ
)
Definitions
adjective
Word forms: lazier, laziest
- not inclined to work or exertion
- conducive to or causing indolence
- moving in a languid or sluggish manner ⇒
a lazy river
- (of a brand letter or mark on livestock) shown as lying on its side
Derived Forms
ˈlazily adverbˈlaziness noun
Word Origin
C16: origin uncertainTranslations for 'lazy'
- British English: lazy If someone is lazy, they do not want to work or make an effort.I was too lazy to learn how to read music.ˈleɪzɪ ADJECTIVE
- Arabic: كَسُولٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: preguiçoso preguiçosa
- Chinese: 懒惰的
- Croatian: lijen lijena
- Czech: líný
- Danish: doven
- Dutch: lui
- European Spanish: perezoso perezosa
- Finnish: laiska
- French: paresseux
- German: faul
- Greek: οκνηρός οκνηρή
- Italian: pigro pigra
- Japanese: 怠惰な
- Korean: 게으른
- Norwegian: doven
- Polish: leniwy leniwa
- Portuguese: preguiçoso preguiçosa
- Romanian: leneș leneș, leneșă, leneși, leneșe
- Russian: ленивый ленивая
- Spanish: perezoso perezosa
- Swedish: lat
- Thai: ขี้เกียจ
- Turkish: tembel
- Ukrainian: ледачий
- Vietnamese: lười biếng
Example Sentences Including 'lazy'
After yesterday's late starts and lazy weather, competitors looked forward to a promise of fresh breeze.Yachting Boating World (2004)
Do this exercise whenever you feel lazy , heavy or tired.The Natural Face Book
During the hearing, a former colleague at another care home described Firth as lazy.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Except, of course, a great sigh of exhaustion from a citizenry too lazy or fed up to think big.Globe and Mail (2003)
He also said he was fed up paying taxes to cover for the " lazy Irish".Belfast Telegraph (2004)
He trotted out some mythology about Rossini, apparently to let us know that even genius musicians could be wacky or lazy.Globe and Mail (2003)
He was alone in the silence, just the lazy pulse of the waves breaking against the shore.AMAGANSETT (2004)
Most of them lay basking in the sun, like lazy swine upon a warm dunghill, thought Alpiew.THE RIVAL QUEENS: A Countess Ashby de la Zouche Mystery (2002)
They had discovered a multiplicity of quick brown foxes jumping over lazy dogs.Weekend for Murder
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