Definitions for lazy
ˈleɪ zilazy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. lazyadjective

   moving slowly and gently

   "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"

2. faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shyadjective

   disinclined to work or exertion

   "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. lazyadjective

   Unwilling to do work or make an effort.

   Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

2. lazyadjective

   Requiring little or no effort.

3. lazyadjective

   Relaxed or leisurely.

   I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

4. lazyadjective

   Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.

5. lazyadjective

   Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.

6. lazyadjective

   Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.

   a lazy algorithm

7. Etymology: 1540, origin uncertain, but probably of origin, from lasich "lazy" from las, lasich "slack, feeble" from lasiwaz, from las-. Akin to leuzig "lazy", lasinn "limpy, tired, weak", lysu "false, evil, base". More at lush.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LAZYadjective

   Etymology: This word is derived by a correspondent, with great probability, from al'aise, French; but it is however Teutonick: lijser in Danish, and losigh in Dutch, have the same meaning; and Henry Spelman gives this account of the word:

   1, Idle; sluggish; unwilling to work.

   Our soldiers, like the night-owl’s lazy flight,
   Or like a lazy thrasher with a flail,
   Fall gently down, as if they struck their friends. William Shakespeare.

   Wicked condemned men will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and spend victuals. Francis Bacon.

   Whose lazy waters without motion lay. Wentworth Dillon.

   The lazy glutton safe at home will keep,
   Indulge his sloth, and batten with his sleep. Dryden.

   Like Eastern kings a lazy state they keep,
   And close confin’d in their own palace sleep. Alexander Pope.

   What amazing stupidity is it, for men to be negligent of salvation themselves? to sit down lazy and unactive. John Rogers.

   2. Slow; tedious.

   The ordinary method for recruiting their armies, was now too dull and lazy an expedient to resist this torrent. Edward Hyde.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lazy

   Lazy is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1924. Popular recordings of the song in 1924 were by Al Jolson, Blossom Seeley, Paul Whiteman and the Brox Sisters. It may be best known today by a performance of the song by Marilyn Monroe in the motion picture There's No Business Like Show Business.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lazy

   Lazy, used as an adjective, describes someone who is not willing to work or use their energy; it connotes a lack of effort or a state of inactivity. It can also describe an action, event, or characteristic that involves minimal effort or where the most efficient route is not taken. Additionally, in a technical context, "lazy" can refer to certain programming or mathematical strategies where evaluation or calculation is delayed until necessary.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lazy

   disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work

2. Lazy

   inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream

3. Lazy

   wicked; vicious

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Lazy

   "Lazy" is a song by Deep Purple from their 1972 album Machine Head. A live performance of the song can be found on the album Made in Japan, released later the same year. The song starts out as an instrumental, keyboardist Jon Lord plays an overdriven Hammond organ intro, followed by the main riff and with the solo swapping between him and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Vocalist Ian Gillan comes in with the vocals later in the song. He also uses harmonica both on the studio version and live. At over 7 minutes long, it is the longest track on the album, and live versions were often extended past 10 minutes. The live version on Made in Japan features a theme from Hugo Alfvén's "Swedish Rhapsody #1", played by Ritchie Blackmore as a part of his solo. Additionally, Jon Lord includes the riff from the C Jam Blues in the intro. Ritchie Blackmore would sometimes include the main riff from "Lazy" in live performances of the song "Man on the Silver Mountain" by Rainbow. Gillan defined the song as rhythm and blues. Later live performances after the band's reunion in 1984 tended to be much shorter, cutting out the intro and one of the verses. However, more recent performances with Steve Morse have gone back to the original arrangement.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lazy

   lā′zi, adj. disinclined to exertion: averse to labour: sluggish: tedious.—v.i. Laze, to be lazy.—adv. Lā′zily.—ns. Lā′ziness, state or quality of being lazy; Lā′zy-bed, a bed for growing potatoes, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides; Lā′zybones (coll.), a lazy person, an idler; Lā′zy-jack, a jack constructed of compound levers pivoted together; Lā′zy-pin′ion (see Idle-wheel).—n.pl. Lā′zy-tongs, tongs consisting of a series of diagonal levers pivoted together at the middle and ends, capable of being extended by a movement of the scissors-like handles so as to pick up objects at a distance. [M. E. lasche—O. Fr. lasche (Fr. lâche), slack, weak, base—L. laxus, loose.]

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1. lazy

   Song lyrics by lazy -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by lazy on the Lyrics.com website.

2. LAZY

   What does LAZY stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the LAZY acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lazy' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4747

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How to pronounce lazy?

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How to say lazy in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lazy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lazy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of lazy in a Sentence

1. Dan Lipinski:

   In other words, we are just lazy. You need a president that really cares. So, I am going to tell you we are going to fight, and we are going to struggle and Puerto Ricans are going to band together and they are going to make the most of it, but I've got to tell you, as long as President Trump is President of the United States, they are never going to rebuild United States.

2. Jesse Watters:

   I've never seen people just like in a lazy river in broad daylight, just turning themselves into a border patrol. That's never happened before. Usually, you see footage of border patrol pulling people out of cacti in the dark of night and coming you know, I feel bad for the people coming across but this is a distraction.

3. Draymond Green:

   There were some times Golden State felt like that, a lot of pace, a lot of movement just trying to push the tempo, with Kevin Durant, you can kind of be lazy knowing you can throw the ball to K and Kevin Durant'll get that bucket. It definitely was a little throwback for us, for sure.

4. Michael Masukawa:

   Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out.

5. Justin Paperny:

   Don't pay for services, like paying someone to do your job. Are you so lazy you can not do your prison job ? That is incredibly off-putting to those who will do it, i got a call six months ago from a woman whose husband is serving time in a medium security prison who cut in line.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lazy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lazy
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lazy
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lazy
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lazy
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=lazy
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lazy