Antonyms for lazy
ˈleɪ zilazy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. lazyadjective

   Synonyms:
   idle, indolent, bone-idle, work-shy, slothful

2. lazyadjective

   Unwilling to do work or make an effort.

   Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

   Synonyms:
   indolent, work-shy, bone-idle, slothful, idle

3. lazyadjective

   Requiring little or no effort.

   Synonyms:
   indolent, bone-idle, idle, work-shy, slothful

4. lazyadjective

   Relaxed or leisurely.

   I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

   Synonyms:
   indolent, idle, bone-idle, slothful, work-shy

5. lazyadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   work-shy, indolent, slothful, idle, bone-idle

6. lazyadjective

   Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.

   Synonyms:
   indolent, idle, slothful, bone-idle, work-shy

7. lazyadjective

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

   a lazy algorithm

   Synonyms:
   idle, indolent, slothful, bone-idle, work-shy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. lazy

   Idle in all uses rests upon its root meaning, as derived from the Anglo-Saxon idel, which signifies vain, empty, useless. Idle thus denotes not primarily the absence of action, but vain action — the absence of useful, effective action; the idle schoolboy may be very actively whittling his desk or tormenting his neighbors. Doing nothing whatever is the secondary meaning of idle. One may be temporarily idle of necessity; if he is habitually idle, it is his own fault. Lazy signifies indisposed to exertion, averse to labor; idleness is in fact; laziness is in disposition or inclination. A lazy person may chance to be employed in useful work, but he acts without energy or impetus. We speak figuratively of a lazy stream. The inert person seems like dead matter (characterized by inertia), powerless to move; the sluggish moves heavily and toilsomely; the most active person may sometimes find the bodily or mental powers sluggish. Slothful belongs in the moral realm, denoting a self-indulgent aversion to exertion. "The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth," Prov. xxvi, 15. Indolent is a milder term for the same quality; the slothful man hates action; the indolent man loves inaction. Compare VAIN.

   Antonyms:
   active, busy, diligent, employed, industrious, occupied, working

   Synonyms:
   idle, inactive, indolent, inert, slothful, sluggish, trifling, unemployed, unoccupied, vacant

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. lazyadjective

   moving slowly and gently

   "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"

   Antonyms:
   busy, fast

   Synonyms:
   slothful, otiose, work-shy, indolent, faineant

2. faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shyadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   busy, fast

   Synonyms:
   indolent, otiose, superfluous, faineant, work-shy, wasted, purposeless, pointless, senseless, futile, unavailing, ineffectual, slothful

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. lazyadjective

   Antonyms:
   diligent, industrious, sedulous, hardworking

   Synonyms:
   indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish

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1. crews

   Submitted by Lovesoccer on February 20, 2022  

How to use lazy in a sentence?

1. Dan Lipinski:

   In other words, we are just lazy. You need a president that really cares. So, I am going to tell you we are going to fight, and we are going to struggle and Puerto Ricans are going to band together and they are going to make the most of it, but I've got to tell you, as long as President Trump is President of the United States, they are never going to rebuild United States.

2. Germaine Greer:

   We are told it's one of the most violent crimes in the world -- bull ****. Most rape is just lazy, just careless, just insensitive, every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal right, he is raping her. It will never end up in a court of law.

3. Zach Galifianakis:

   It’s been a real launching pad for whites, you have'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.' James Corden has' Carpool Karaoke.' What’s next in lazy car-based, non-comedy ?

4. Charlie McCarthy:

   Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

5. Ruth Hay:

   I grew up being called lazy in periods of time when I wasn't, if you look at a list of all the various ADHD symptoms, I have all of them to one degree or another, but the only ones ever discussed with me was you might be less focused and more fidgety.

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