Meaning of LAZY
| Pronunciation: | | 'leyzee
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"
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| | Synonyms: | | faineant, idle, indolent, otiose, slothful, slow, work-shy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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extension, originally made for picking up something at a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}.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are feeling lazy means that you will make a terrible error in a business deal resulting in bitter disappointments.
Dreaming that you lover is lazy means that you will have many rocky and insecure love relationships. |
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| | Related Terms: | | airy, ambling, backward, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, careless, casual, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cursory, dallying, degage, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, dillydallying, disregardant, disregardful, do nothing, doless, do-nothing, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, flippant, foot-dragging, forgetful, free and easy, gentle, goldbrick, good-for-nothing, goof off, gradual, halting, hang around, heedless, hobbled, hobbling, idle, inactive, inconsiderate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, lax, laze, leisurely, lethargic, lie around, limping, lingering, listless, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loitering, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, lumbering, Micawberish, moderate, mooch around, moon, moon around, neglectful, negligent, nonaggressive, oblivious, offhand, otiose, parasitic, passive, perfunctory, poking, poky, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, respectless, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, sit around, slack, slothful, slouch, slouch around, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snaillike, snail-paced, sponging, staggering, stand around, strolling, supine, tactless, tentative, thoughtless, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trifling, trudging, turtlelike, undiplomatic, unenterprising, unheedful, unheeding, unhurried, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, waddling, work-shy |
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