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Etymology [edit]
1540, origin uncertain, but probably from Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”). Akin to Dutch leuzig "lazy", Old Norse lasinn "limpy, tired, weak", Old English lesu, lysu "false, evil, base". More at lush.
Alternate etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays + -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
lazy (comparative lazier, superlative laziest)
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
- Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
- Requiring little or no effort.
- Relaxed or leisurely.
- I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
- We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- (cattle branding) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- a lazy algorithm
- (UK, obsolete or dialect) wicked; vicious
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Usage notes [edit]
- Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
unwilling to work
- Afrikaans: lui (af)
- Albanian: përtac (sq), dembel (sq)
- Arabic: كسلان (ar) (kaslān)
- Armenian: ծույլ (hy) (çuyl)
- Belarusian: лянівы (be) (ljanívy)
- Bulgarian: ленив (bg) (lenív)
- Catalan: mandrós (ca), peresós (ca)
- Cebuano: tapulan
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 懶惰 (cmn), 懒惰 (cmn) (lǎnduò), 懶 (cmn), 懒 (cmn) (lǎn)
- Crimean Tatar: erinçek, tenbel
- Czech: líný (cs) m
- Danish: doven (da)
- Dutch: lui (nl)
- Esperanto: pigra (eo), mallaborema (eo)
- Estonian: laisk (et), logardlik (et)
- Ewe: kuvia
- Faroese: latur (fo), dovin (fo)
- Finnish: laiska (fi)
- French: paresseux (fr)
- Georgian: ზარმაცი (ka) (zarmac'i)
- German: faul (de)
- Greek: τεμπέλης (el) (tebélis)
- Hebrew: עָצֵל (he) (ʻatsel) m
- Hindi: आलसी (hi) (ālsī)
- Hungarian: lusta (hu)
- Indonesian: malas (id)
- Italian: pigro (it)
- Japanese: ナマケモノ (ja) (namakemono), 怠惰な (ja) (たいだな, taida-na), ぐうたら (ja) (guutara)
- Jèrriais: ouaîsif, pièrcheux
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- Korean: 게으른 (ko) (ge-eureun)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: تهممهڵ (ku) (tammaL)
- Latin: ignavus (la)
- Macedonian: мрзлив (mk) (mrzliv)
- Marathi: आळशी (mr) (āḷśī)
- Meru: muthao
- Old English: īdelġeorn
- Persian: تَنبَل (fa) (tanbal)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: hillie
- Polish: leniwy (pl)
- Portuguese: preguiçoso (pt)
- Romanian: leneș (ro), puturos (ro), indolent (ro)
- Russian: ленивый (ru) (lenívyj)
- Sanskrit: अलसः (sa) (alasaḥ)
- Scottish Gaelic: leisg
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лењ (sh), лен (sh), лијен (sh)
- Roman: lenj (sh), len (sh), lijen (sh)
- Slovak: lenivý (sk)
- Slovene: lén (sl)
- Spanish: perezoso (es), flojo (es), locho (es), haragán (es), vago (es)
- Swahili: mlegevu (sw)
- Swedish: lat (sv), slö (sv)
- Telugu: సోమరి (te) (sOmari), బద్ధకం (te) (baddhakaM)
- Thai: เกียจคร้าน (th) (kìadkhráan)
- Turkish: tembel (tr)
- Ukrainian: лінивий (uk) (linývyj), ледачий (uk) (ledáčyj)
- Urdu: آلسی (ur) (ālsī)
- Vietnamese: lười biếng (vi), lười (vi)
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requiring little or no effort
eye: squinting because of weak muscles
cattle brands: horizontal
