Lazy

Adjective

 * 1) Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
 * Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
 * 1) Requiring little or no effort.
 * lazy port
 * 1) Relaxed or leisurely.
 * I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
 * 1)  Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
 * 2) (cattle brands) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.

Synonyms

 * (unwilling to work): bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy
 * See also Thesaurus:lazy

Derived terms

 * laze
 * laziness
 * lazybones
 * lazy evaluation
 * lazy eye
 * lazy Susan

Adverbs for Lazy
unbelievably; deliciously; delightfully; utterly; incurably; inexcusably; openly; flauntingly; nonchalantly; blithely; carelessly; admittedly; vauntingly; intensely; mentally; incorrigibly; horribly; selfishly; inconsiderately; ungraciously; curiously; unpardonably; impudently; blatantly; flagrantly; insufferably; unbearably; lethargically; languidly; heavily; lumpishly; inertly; dreamily; sleepily; drowsily; terribly; provokingly.

Thesaurus
Micawberish, airy, ambling, backward, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, careless, casual, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cursory, dallying, degage, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, dillydallying, disregardant, disregardful, do nothing, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, flippant, foot-dragging, forgetful, free and easy, gentle, goldbrick, good-for-nothing, goof off, gradual, halting, hang around, heedless, hobbled, hobbling, idle, inactive, inconsiderate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, lax, laze, leisurely, lethargic, lie around, limping, lingering, listless, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loitering, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, lumbering, moderate, mooch around, moon, moon around, neglectful, negligent, nonaggressive, oblivious, offhand, otiose, parasitic, passive, perfunctory, poking, poky, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, respectless, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, sit around, slack, slothful, slouch, slouch around, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, stand around, strolling, supine, tactless, tentative, thoughtless, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trifling, trudging, turtlelike, undiplomatic, unenterprising, unheedful, unheeding, unhurried, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, waddling, work-shy

Etymology
1540, origin uncertain, but probably of origin, from  lasich: "lazy" from  las:, lasich: "slack, feeble" from  from. Akin to leuzig: "lazy",  lasinn: "limpy, tired, weak",  lysu: "false, evil, base". More at.

Alternate etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy:, a derivative of (plural lays:) in the same way that tipsy: is derived from. See.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: përtac, dembel
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: (çuyl)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Crimean Tatar: erinçek, tenbel
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: laisk, logardlik
 * Ewe: kuvia
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: malas
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 怠惰, ぐうたら


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ته‌ممه‌ڵ
 * Latin:
 * Marathi: आळशी (āllshī)
 * Meru:
 * Old English: īdelġeorn
 * Persian:
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: hillie
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: अलसः (alasaha)
 * Scottish Gaelic: leisg
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: лењ лења
 * Roman: lenj, lenja
 * Spanish: perezoso, perezosa , flojo , floja , locho , locha ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: సోమరి (sOmari), బద్ధకం (baddhakaM)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: lười biếng,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Swedish: lat, slapp, sömnig


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: karsastava
 * Russian: затуманенное зрение, амблиопи
 * Swahili: legevu


 * Finnish: