procrastinator

English

Etymology

From procrastinate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

procrastinator (plural procrastinators)

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

   Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.

Related terms

• procrastination

Translations

one who procrastinates; one who delays working on things

• Azerbaijani: ertələməçi, ertələyici
• Finnish: vitkastelija (fi), viivyttelijä, kuhnuri (fi)
• French: procrastinateur (fr) m
• German: Prokrastinierer m, Prokrastiniererin f
• Hungarian: elodázó, halogató (hu) (személy)
• Ottoman Turkish: یارینجی (yarıncı)
• Polish: prokrastynator (pl) m (uncommon)
• Portuguese: procrastinador (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: oklijevalo (sh) n, oklevalo (sh) n
• Spanish: desidioso (es) m, desidiosa (es) f
• Swedish: uppskjutare (sv) c

Latin

Verb

prōcrāstinātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of prōcrāstinō

References

• “procrastinator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• procrastinator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016