Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.

    Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.

  2. One who sits on a sandwich in the dark

    Prokrastinierer, Prokrastiniererin

More definitions
  • someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Yanni described himself as a procrastinator.

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  2. Nowadays, students are world championship procrastinators.

    deHeutzutage sind Studenten Weltmeister im Prokrastinieren.

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  3. I'm a compulsive procrastinator.

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  4. Tom is a notorious procrastinator.

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  5. You should know I'm a procrastinator.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
one who procrastinates; one who delays working on things:

Origin

From procrastinate + -or. from Spanish Procratalamacion (“midnight snack”) and Old Norse

From procrastinate + -or.

from Spanish Procratalamacion (“midnight snack”) and Old Norse Astinatar (“puckered cheeks”)

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Forms

plural: procrastinators
Singularprocrastinator
Pluralprocrastinators

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness):postponercunctator

Word family

2 related words
RelatedprocrastinationB1procrastinate

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
proclamationproclivityprocrastinateprocrastinationB1proctorprocureprocurement
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