Meaning

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

    Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

    faul

    лени́выйlenívyj

    ліни́вийlinývyj, леда́чийledáčyj

    disinclined to work or exertion

  2. Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.

    I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

  3. Showing a lack of effort or care.

    lazy writing

  4. Sluggish; slow-moving.

    We strolled along beside a lazy stream.

    moving slowly and gently

  5. Lax:

    Droopy.

    a lazy-eared rabbit

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

    затуманенное зре́ниеzatumanennoje zrénije, амблиопиambliopi

  7. Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.

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

    a lazy algorithm

  9. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)Wicked; vicious.

Examples

673 sentences
  1. I don't think Tom is lazy.

    Я не думаю, що Том ледачий.

    ruЯ не думаю, что Том - лентяй.

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  2. I know that Tom is lazy.

    Я знаю, що Том ледачий.

    ruЯ знаю, что Том ленивый.

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  3. I'm too lazy to do that.

    Я для цього занадто ледачий.

    ruЯ слишком ленив для этого.

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  4. Tom said that Mary was lazy.

    Том скащав, що Мері лінива.

    ruТом сказал, что Мэри ленивая.

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  5. Tom is very lazy, isn't he?

    Том дуже ледачий, так?

    deTom ist sehr faul, nicht wahr?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
unwilling to work:
Русский
By meaning 2
unwilling to work:
eye: squinting because of weak muscles:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
unwilling to work:

Origin

Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasi

Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”).

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Forms

lazier, laziest
Comparativelazier Lesson
Superlativelaziest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
unwilling to work:idleB2indolentC2bone-idleslothfulwork-shy
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

38 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • as lazy as
  • too lazy to
  • is a lazy
  • is as lazy
  • is too lazy
  • lazy person
  • being being lazy
  • a lazy person
  • a very lazy
  • a lazy kid
  • lazy boy
  • the laziest person

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lazy — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto