procrastinate
English
Etymology
Either back-formation from procrastination, or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prōcrastinātum, past participle of prōcrastinō (“defer, put off till tomorrow”), from prō (“in favor of”) + crāstinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”)
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.
- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
- (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).
- 1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4:
- Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.
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Translations
put off; to delay taking action
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put off; delay something
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See also
Further reading
- “procrastinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “procrastinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “procrastinate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian
Verb
procrastinate
- second-person plural present indicative of procrastinare
- second-person plural imperative of procrastinare
- feminine plural of procrastinato
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) prōcrāstināte
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