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Synonyms for lazy
ˈleɪ zilazy

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Wiktionary1.0 / 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 Antonyms3.3 / 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.

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

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

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. lazyadjective

    moving slowly and gently

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

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

    Antonyms:
    busy, fast

  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"

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

    Antonyms:
    busy, fast

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. active

    when your lazy, you're like a couch potato, when you're active, you can be all tired of exercise, work and more!

    she's very active, but her little brother is very lazy.

    Submitted by xnrtd on January 16, 2021  
  2. sleepyverb

    mean

    mmm

    Submitted by johanna.harlan on December 19, 2024  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. lazyadjective

    Synonyms:
    slothful, sluggish, indolent, idle, inert, inactive, supine, torpid, slack, dronish, lumpish

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. lazyadjective

    Synonyms:
    indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish

    Antonyms:
    diligent, industrious, sedulous, hardworking

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#9013idle
#9125lazy
#10506inactive
#10675vacant
#12212unemployed
#12442wasted
#18270pointless
#26975futile
#27289inert
#29806sluggish
#35057senseless
#35699superfluous
#43939unoccupied
#61666ineffectual
#69037trifling
#80300indolent
#109464unavailing
#114767slothful
#148311purposeless

How to use lazy in a sentence?

  1. John Legere:

    It's a bit dumbfounding to think that we've decided to go and build this network and go through this merger so that we can become the basic, lazy, fat, dumb and arrogant players that we were born to teach how to behave.

  2. The President:

    We know we're going to get to a place where the doubters exist or the people who just are, I don't want to say lazy, just not sure how to get to where they want to go( to get vaccinated). It's going to be hard, we're going to keep at it. And I think at the end of the day, most people will be convinced by the fact that their failure to get the vaccine may cause other people to get sick and maybe die.

  3. Nancy Hogshead-Makar:

    This topic is very uncomfortable for people. They do n’t understand it, and so they took the lazy way out, the lazy way out is saying, ‘ Put them in the women’s category. ’.

  4. Tom Petty:

    I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

  5. Troy Terry:

    The shots were in our favor and we were creating offense, but that’s when we got lazy, when you’re playing these teams in the NHL, if you take a shift off here or there, they’re going to make you pay. That’s our next step.


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