lazy

Meaning

1. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
2. Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
3. Showing a lack of effort or care.
4. Sluggish; slow-moving.
5. Lax:
6. Lax:
7. Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
8. Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
9. (obsolete) Wicked; vicious.

idle

be lazy

lounge about

lazy person

be tired

be idle

slow-going

wandering about

hanging down

weak person

noncooperative

be dilatory

idle person

be indolent

ne’ve-do-well

made slow

not industrious

without energy

unangry

unpleasant woman

unprovoking

badly-behaved

weak people

desidious

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈleɪzi/

Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, 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 alternate 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.