Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
7. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
8. (UK, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.

Example Sentences

Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

"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."

I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

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.

We strolled along beside a lazy stream.

There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world.

Word Forms

• lazier
• laziest
• lazies
• lazying
• lazied

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