lazy

adjective

1. 1

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

   Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

   "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. 2

   Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.

   I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

3. 3

   Showing a lack of effort or care.

   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.

4. 4

   Sluggish; slow-moving.

   We strolled along beside a lazy stream.

5. 5

   Lax: Droopy.

   a lazy-eared rabbit

6. 6

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

7. 7

   Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.

   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.

8. 8

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

   a lazy algorithm

9. 9

   obsoleteWicked; vicious.

   The swilland dropsy enter in The lazy cuke , and swell his skin

verb

1. 1

   informalTo laze, act in a lazy manner.

   “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.

noun

1. 1

   A lazy person.

   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.

2. 2

   obsoleteSloth (animal).

   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.

Forms

plural

lazies

comparative

lazier

superlative

laziest

past tense

lazied

past participle

lazied

present participle

lazying

third person singular

lazies