Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - lazy
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Lazy
lazy
(lazier, laziest) 1. If someone is lazy, they do not want to work or make any effort to do anything. Lazy and incompetent police officers are letting the public down... I was too lazy to learn how to read music. = idle ADJ • laziness Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness. N-UNCOUNT 2. You can use lazy to describe an activity or event in which you are very relaxed and which you do or take part in without making much effort. Her latest novel is perfect for a lazy summer’s afternoon reading... We would have a lazy lunch and then lie on the beach in the sun. = relaxed ADJ: ADJ n • lazily Liz went back into the kitchen, stretching lazily. ADV: ADV with v
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I. adjective (lazier; -est) Etymology: perhaps from Middle Low German lasich feeble; akin to Middle High German erleswen to become weak Date: 1549 1. a. disinclined to activity or exertion ; not energetic or vigorous b. encouraging inactivity or indolence a ~ summer day 2. moving slowly ; sluggish 3. droopy, lax a rabbit with ~ ears 4. placed on its side ~ E livestock brand 5. not rigorous or strict ~ scholarship • lazily adverb • laziness noun • ~ish adjective Synonyms: ~, indolent, slothful mean not easily aroused to activity. ~ suggests a disinclination to work or to take trouble take-out foods for ~ cooks. indolent suggests a love of ease and a dislike of movement or activity the heat made us indolent. slothful implies a temperamental inability to act promptly or speedily when action or speed is called for fired for being slothful about filling orders. II. intransitive verb (lazied; ~ing) Date: 1612 to move or lie lazily ; laze ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (lazier, laziest) 1 disinclined to work, doing little work. 2 of or inducing idleness. 3 (of a river) slow-moving. Derivatives lazily adv. laziness n. Etymology: earlier laysie, lasie, laesy, perh. f. LG: cf. LG lasich idle ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. ленивый a lazy river —- лениво текущая река to spend a lazy afternoon —- провести день в ничегонеделании he is lazy about getting up —- он ленив (ленится) вставать 2. располагающий к лени (о погоде, обстановке и т.д.) Id: lazy man's load —- огромная охапка (которую трудно донести, но легко рассыпать) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
adj. ленивый LAZY Susan 1) вращающийся поднос для приправ, соусов и т.п. 2) небольшой столик для бутербродов и закусок ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ adj 1 disliking work and physical activity, and never making any effort (the laziest boy in the class | I was feeling lazy so I called a taxi.) 2 a lazy period of time is spent doing nothing except relaxing (a lazy Sunday) 3 moving slowly (a lazy river) - lazily adv - laziness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1549, of unknown origin, perhaps from lay (v.) as tipsy from tip. Other candidates are M.L.G. lasich "weak, feeble, tired," and O.N. lasinn "weak, slack, limp." Laze is a back-formation first attested 1592; lazybones is first attested 1593. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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