Synonyms for lazy
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
Related words
- Word family
- laze lazily laziness lazyback lazyboy
- Phrases
- lazy battery effect lazy dog lazy dog bomb lazy louse lazy tongs
- Is a kind of
- inactive
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Lazy signifies indisposed to exertion, averse to labor; idleness is in fact; laziness is in disposition or inclination. A lazy person may chance to be employed in useful work, but he acts without energy or impetus.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- slow He who is slow to promise is best in keeping them.
- sluggish Mr. Smith ran his sluggish horse along the country roads.
- indolent Indolent youth creates a begging old age.
By length
- 4 letters
- slow1, idle2
- 5 letters
- slack1, inert2
- 6 letters
- supine2, torpid2, otiose3
- 7 letters
- dronish
- 8 letters
- inactive3, sluggish2, indolent3, slothful
- 9 letters
- lethargic3
- 10 letters
- unworksome
- 13 letters
- lackadaisical5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idle2 = 2 syllables).