- (disapproving) unwilling to work or be active; doing as little as possible synonym idle
- He was not stupid, just lazy.
- too lazy to do something I was feeling too lazy to go out.
- She's just plain lazy.
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- not involving much energy or activity; slow and relaxed
- We spent a lazy day on the beach.
Extra Examples- His smile was slow, almost lazy.
- She smiled a lazy smile.
- (disapproving) showing a lack of effort or care
- a lazy piece of work
- Most of us are intellectually lazy about large areas of the world around us.
- We thought we were winning, so we got lazy.
- (literary) moving slowly synonym torpid
- the lazy river
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps related to Low German lasich ‘languid, idle’.
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