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la⋅zy

  [ley-zee] adjective, -zi⋅er, -zi⋅est, verb, -zied, -zy⋅ing.
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–adjective
1. averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
2. causing idleness or indolence: a hot, lazy afternoon.
3. slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy stream.
4. (of a livestock brand) placed on its side instead of upright.
–verb (used without object)
5. to laze.
Origin:
1540–50; cf. LG lasich languid, idle

Related forms:
la⋅zi⋅ly, adverb
la⋅zi⋅ness, noun
la⋅zy⋅ish, adjective

Synonyms:
1. slothful. See idle. 3. inert, inactive, torpid.

Antonyms:
1. industrious. 3. quick.
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la·zy   (lā'zē)   
adj.   la·zi·er, la·zi·est
  1. Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness.
  2. Slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy river.
  3. Conducive to idleness or indolence: a lazy summer day.
  4. Depicted as reclining or lying on its side. Used of a brand on livestock.

[Probably of Low German origin.]
la'zi·ly adv., la'zi·ness n.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean not disposed to exertion, work, or activity: too lazy to wash the dishes; fainéant aristocrats; an idle drifter; an indolent hanger-on; slothful employees.
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Lazy

La"zy\, a. [Compar. Lazier; superl. Laziest.] [OE. lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L. lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.]

1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. --Bacon.

2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." --Shak.

3. Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --B. Jonson.

Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.

Syn: Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See Idle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : lazy
Spanish: perezoso, vago,
German: faul,
Japanese: 怠惰な
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lazy 
1549, laysy, of unknown origin. Replaced native slack, slothful, and idle as the main word expressing the notion of "averse to work." In 19c. thought to be from lay (v.) as tipsy from tip. Skeat is responsible for the prevailing modern view that it probably comes from Low Ger., cf. M.L.G. laisch "weak, feeble, tired," modern Low Ger. läösig, early modern Du. leuzig, all of which may go back to the PIE root *(s)leg- "slack." According to Weekley, the -z- sound disqualifies a connection with Fr. lassé "tired" or Ger. lassig "lazy, weary, tired." A supposed dialectal meaning "naught, bad," if it is the original sense, may tie the word to O.N. lasenn "dilapidated," lasmøyrr "decrepit, fragile," root of Icelandic las-furða "ailing," las-leiki "ailment." Laze is a back-formation first attested 1592; lazybones is first attested 1592. Lazy Susan is from 1917.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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