adjective (lazier, laziest)
1 (disapproving) unwilling to work or be active; doing as little as possible:
He was not stupid, just lazy. * I was feeling too lazy to go out.
2 not involving much energy or activity; slow and relaxed:
We spent a lazy day on the beach.
3 (disapproving) showing a lack of effort or care:
a lazy piece of work
4 (literary) moving slowly:
the lazy river
lazily adverb:
She woke up and stretched lazily. * The birds circled lazily above our heads.
laziness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lazy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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