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lazy adjective [ ˈleɪzi ]

• unwilling to work or use energy.
• "he was too lazy to cook"
Similar: idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy, shiftless, loafing, inactive, inert, sluggish, lethargic, languorous, listless, torpid, enervated, slow-moving, slow, heavy, dull, plodding, remiss, negligent, slack, lax, lackadaisical, impassive, good-for-nothing, do-nothing, leisurely, bone idle, fainéant, otiose,
Opposite: active, industrious, energetic,
• (of a brand on livestock) placed on its side rather than upright.
Origin: mid 16th century: perhaps related to Low German lasich ‘languid, idle’.


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