lazy
/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
adj
Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
adj
adj
Lax:
adj
Lax:
adj
Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
adj
Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
Example Sentences
- "Get out of bed, you lazy lout!"
- "If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is."
- ""I'm too lazy," he said. "My wife says I'm the laziest man in all Oz, and she is a truthful woman. I hate work of any kind, and making a raft is hard work.""
- "I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday."
- "lazy writing"
- "So it was this beautiful young woman Rokoff had been persecuting. Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian."
Etymology
Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”). Akin to Dutch leuzig (“lazy”), German lässig (“casual, nonchalant, laid-back, easy-going”), Old Norse lasinn (“limpy, tired, weak”), Old English lesu, lysu (“false, evil, base”). More at lush. An alternative 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.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/
- British English: /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/