lazy
- averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- causing idleness or indolence: a hot, lazy afternoon.
- slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy stream.
- (of a livestock brand) placed on its side instead of upright.
- to laze.
Origin of lazy
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Contemporary Examples
Cereal brings back memories of lazy mornings and easy extravagance, a time when worries were few and comfort was plenty.
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A lazy off-season afternoon in Palmer's house is like being trapped in a Rube Goldberg cartoon.
And this time, the guy who ‘eats too much, is lazy, and loves to play music’ is taking his fight to the machines.
You lethargic, unfocused, unstable, lazy, hazy, crazy time of year.
Historical Examples
The industrious and thrifty would be at the mercy of the lazy and wicked.
An Explanation of Luther's Small CatechismJoseph Stump
The faintest whiff of stephanotis came to her on the lazy summer air.
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There was no sparkle of any kind on the lazy stream of his life.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
If you weren't too lazy to give orders, Pete, you'd have cold beer for a day like this.
Good IndianB. M. Bower
I guess she thinks we're a lazy bunch, all right, when the old man's gone.
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lazy
- not inclined to work or exertion
- conducive to or causing indolence
- moving in a languid or sluggish mannera lazy river
- (of a brand letter or mark on livestock) shown as lying on its side
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for lazy
adj.
1540s, laysy, of unknown origin. Replaced native slack, slothful, and idle as the main word expressing the notion of "averse to work." In 19c. thought to be from lay (v.) as tipsy from tip. Skeat is responsible for the prevailing modern view that it probably comes from Low German, cf. Middle Low German laisch "weak, feeble, tired," modern Low German läösig, early modern Dutch leuzig, all of which may go back to the PIE root *(s)leg- "slack." According to Weekley, the -z- sound disqualifies a connection with French lassé "tired" or German lassig "lazy, weary, tired." A supposed dialectal meaning "naught, bad," if it is the original sense, may tie the word to Old Norse lasenn "dilapidated," lasmøyrr "decrepit, fragile," root of Icelandic las-furða "ailing," las-leiki "ailment." Lazy Susan is from 1917.