Lazy

//ˈleɪzi//

Synonyms for "lazy" (188 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (38)

Strong matches (56)

Related words (94)

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Adjective(3 words)

otiose slothful work-shy

Adjective(6 words)

slothful sluggish swear torpid unworksome work-shy

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

1 entries

inactive

Antonyms

5 entries

active hard hard work productive work

Synonyms

2 entries

bone idle faineant

Related terms

5 entries

doer idler laziness shirk slow

coordinate

1 entries

flying

derived

50 entries

laze lazily laziness lazy 8 lazy Kate lazy Laurence lazy Lawrence lazy S lazy as Ludlam's dog lazy ass lazy battery effect lazy bed lazy bones lazy daisy lazy dog lazy dog bomb

Showing 16 of 50 words.

derived from

1 entries

laze

distinct from

4 entries

active energetic motivated productive

etymologically related_to

6 entries

lay lays laysy lush tip tipsy

has context

5 entries

cattle brand comptheory dialect optometry uk

related to

33 entries

adjective around attitude avoidance boredom droopy effort enervated horizontal idle inaction indolent lax laying laying around laze

Showing 16 of 33 words.

similar

3 entries

idle slow

Translations

226 translations across 118 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

lui adj (unwilling to work)

Albanian

3 entries

dembel adj (unwilling to work)
prites adj (unwilling to work)
përtac adj (unwilling to work)

Arabic

2 entries

كسلان adj (unwilling to work)
كَسْلَان adj (unwilling to work)

Armenian

1 entries

ծույլ adj (unwilling to work)

Assamese

2 entries

এলেহুৱা adj (unwilling to work)
লেধা adj (unwilling to work)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

tənbəl adj (unwilling to work)
ərincək adj (unwilling to work)

Bashkir

1 entries

ялҡау adj (unwilling to work)

Basque

1 entries

nagi adj (unwilling to work)

Bavarian German

1 entries

gstinkert adj (unwilling to work)

Belarusian

1 entries

ляні́вы adj (unwilling to work)

Bengali

2 entries

অলস adj (unwilling to work)
চিঙ্গা adj (unwilling to work)

Bikol Central

1 entries

hugakon adj (unwilling to work)

Breton

1 entries

lezireg adj (unwilling to work)

Bulgarian

2 entries

лени́в adj (unwilling to work)
мързели́в adj (unwilling to work)

Buryat

1 entries

залхуу adj (unwilling to work)

Catalan

2 entries

mandrós adj (unwilling to work)
peresós adj (unwilling to work)

Cebuano

1 entries

tapolan adj (unwilling to work)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

تەممەڵ adj (unwilling to work)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎦᎾᎵ adj (unwilling to work)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

懶 /懒 adj (unwilling to work)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

弱視 /弱视 adj (eye: squinting because of weak muscles)
懶 /懒 adj (unwilling to work)
懶惰 /懒惰 adj (unwilling to work)

Chukchi

1 entries

нывъяӄэн adj (unwilling to work)

Cornish

2 entries

diek adj (unwilling to work)
syger adj (unwilling to work)

Crimean Tatar

2 entries

erinçek adj (unwilling to work)
tenbel adj (unwilling to work)

Czech

1 entries

líný adj (unwilling to work)

Danish

2 entries

doven adj (unwilling to work)
lad adj (unwilling to work)

Dutch

3 entries

lui adj (unwilling to work)
lui adj (eye: squinting because of weak muscles)
werkschuw adj (unwilling to work)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries

懶 /懒 adj (unwilling to work)

Elfdalian

1 entries

lat adj (unwilling to work)

Esperanto

2 entries

mallaborema adj (unwilling to work)
pigra adj (unwilling to work)

Estonian

2 entries

laisk adj (unwilling to work)
logardlik adj (unwilling to work)

Ewe

1 entries

kuvia adj (unwilling to work)

Faroese

2 entries

dovin adj (unwilling to work)
latur adj (unwilling to work)

Finnish

4 entries

karsastava adj (eye: squinting because of weak muscles)
laiska adj (unwilling to work)
makaava adj (cattle brand: horizontal)
rauhallinen adj (causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely)

French

3 entries

fainéant adj (unwilling to work)
inactif adj (causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely)
paresseux adj (unwilling to work)

Gagauz

1 entries

dembel adj (unwilling to work)

Galician

4 entries

arlote adj (unwilling to work)
bacaceiro adj (unwilling to work)
lacazán adj (unwilling to work)
larchán adj (unwilling to work)

Georgian

1 entries

ზარმაცი adj (unwilling to work)

German

1 entries

faul adj (unwilling to work)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 adj (unwilling to work)

Greek

1 entries

τεμπέλης adj (unwilling to work)

Greenlandic

1 entries

eqiattarpoq adj (unwilling to work)

Hawaiian

1 entries

moloā adj (unwilling to work)

Hebrew

1 entries

עָצֵל adj (unwilling to work)

Higaonon

1 entries

tapulan adj (unwilling to work)

Hindi

2 entries

आलसी adj (unwilling to work)
सुस्त adj (unwilling to work)

Hungarian

2 entries

lusta adj (unwilling to work)
rest adj (unwilling to work)

Hunsrik

1 entries

faul adj (unwilling to work)

Icelandic

1 entries

latur adj (unwilling to work)

Ilocano

1 entries

nasadut adj (unwilling to work)

Indonesian

1 entries

malas adj (unwilling to work)

Irish

4 entries

anábhailleach adj (unwilling to work)
drogallach adj (unwilling to work)
leisciúil adj (unwilling to work)
sámh adj (unwilling to work)

Italian

1 entries

pigro adj (unwilling to work)

Japanese

3 entries

ぐうたら adj (unwilling to work)
ナマケモノ adj (unwilling to work)
怠惰な adj (unwilling to work)

Khmer

2 entries

ខ្ជិល adj (unwilling to work)
សិវៈ adj (causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely)

Korean

1 entries

게으르다 adj (unwilling to work)

Ladino

3 entries

haragan adj (unwilling to work)
peresozo adj (unwilling to work)
tembel adj (unwilling to work)

Latin

3 entries

ignāvus adj (unwilling to work)
piger adj (unwilling to work)
sēgnis adj (unwilling to work)

Latvian

1 entries

laisks adj (unwilling to work)

Lithuanian

1 entries

tingus adj (unwilling to work)

Lower Sorbian

2 entries

gniły adj (unwilling to work)
lěniwy adj (unwilling to work)

Luxembourgish

2 entries

faul adj (unwilling to work)
liddereg adj (unwilling to work)

Macedonian

1 entries

мрзлив adj (unwilling to work)

Malay

1 entries

malas adj (unwilling to work)

Maltese

1 entries

għażżien adj (unwilling to work)

Manx

1 entries

drollaneagh adj (unwilling to work)

Marathi

1 entries

आळशी adj (unwilling to work)

Meru

1 entries

muthao adj (unwilling to work)

Mongolian

1 entries

залхуу adj (unwilling to work)

Māori

4 entries

huhure adj (unwilling to work)
makuku adj (unwilling to work)
mākoko adj (unwilling to work)
māngere adj (unwilling to work)

Nanai

1 entries

албакто adj (unwilling to work)

Norman

2 entries

ouaîsif adj (unwilling to work)
pièrcheux adj (unwilling to work)

Northern Altai

2 entries

дьалку adj (unwilling to work)
йалты adj (unwilling to work)

Northern Sami

1 entries

láiki adj (unwilling to work)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

doven adj (unwilling to work)
lat adj (unwilling to work)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

doven adj (unwilling to work)
lat adj (unwilling to work)

Occitan

2 entries

ociós adj (unwilling to work)
peresós adj (unwilling to work)

Old English

1 entries

slāw adj (unwilling to work)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

تنبل adj (unwilling to work)
هایلاز adj (unwilling to work)

Pangasinan

1 entries

mangiras adj (unwilling to work)

Persian

2 entries

تَنبَل adj (unwilling to work)
لس adj (unwilling to work)

Pitcairn-Norfolk

1 entries

hillie adj (unwilling to work)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

ful adj (unwilling to work)
mooj adj (unwilling to work)

Polish

1 entries

leniwy adj (unwilling to work)

Portuguese

1 entries

preguiçoso adj (unwilling to work)

Quechua

1 entries

qilla adj (unwilling to work)

Romanian

4 entries

indolent adj (unwilling to work)
leneș adj (unwilling to work)
puturos adj (unwilling to work)
trândav adj (unwilling to work)

Romansch

2 entries

marsch adj (unwilling to work)
pigher adj (unwilling to work)

Russian

3 entries

амблиопи adj (eye: squinting because of weak muscles)
затуманенное зре́ние adj (eye: squinting because of weak muscles)
лени́вый adj (unwilling to work)

Sanskrit

1 entries

अलस adj (unwilling to work)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

dìomhain adj (unwilling to work)
leisg adj (unwilling to work)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

len adj (unwilling to work)
lenj adj (unwilling to work)
lijȇn adj (unwilling to work)
лен adj (unwilling to work)

Slovak

1 entries

lenivý adj (unwilling to work)

Slovene

1 entries

lén adj (unwilling to work)

Southern Altai

1 entries

јалку adj (unwilling to work)

Spanish

4 entries

acostadote adj (unwilling to work)
apoltronado adj (unwilling to work)
barzón adj (unwilling to work)
echadote adj (unwilling to work)

Swahili

2 entries

legevu adj (unwilling to work)
legevu adj (eye: squinting because of weak muscles)

Swedish

4 entries

lat adj (unwilling to work)
lat adj (causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely)
slapp adj (causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely)
slö adj (unwilling to work)

Tabasaran

1 entries

темпел adj (unwilling to work)

Tachawit

1 entries

abexnis adj (unwilling to work)

Tagalog

3 entries

batugan adj (unwilling to work)
patay-patay adj (unwilling to work)
tamad adj (unwilling to work)

Tamil

1 entries

சோம்பல் adj (unwilling to work)

Telugu

2 entries

బద్ధకం adj (unwilling to work)
సోమరి adj (unwilling to work)

Thai

2 entries

ขี้เกียจ adj (unwilling to work)
เกียจคร้าน adj (unwilling to work)

Tibetan

1 entries

སྒྱིད་ལ་ངན་པོ adj (unwilling to work)

Tocharian B

1 entries

ālase adj (unwilling to work)

Tongan

1 entries

fakapikopiko adj (unwilling to work)

Turkish

1 entries

tembel adj (unwilling to work)

Turkmen

2 entries

temmel adj (unwilling to work)
ýalta adj (unwilling to work)

Ukrainian

2 entries

леда́чий adj (unwilling to work)
ліни́вий adj (unwilling to work)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

lěni adj (unwilling to work)

Urdu

1 entries

آلسی adj (unwilling to work)

Uyghur

2 entries

يالقاۋ adj (unwilling to work)
ھورۇن adj (unwilling to work)

Vietnamese

2 entries

lười adj (unwilling to work)
lười biếng adj (unwilling to work)

Welsh

1 entries

diog adj (unwilling to work)

West Flemish

1 entries

leeg adj (unwilling to work)

Yiddish

1 entries

פֿױל adj (unwilling to work)

Zazaki

2 entries

tenbel adj (unwilling to work)
êmıs adj (unwilling to work)

Sample sentences

29 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm too lazy to do my homework.

Source: tatoeba (2155)

It is because you are lazy that you cannot write your report.

Source: tatoeba (17941)

As a rule, man is inclined to be lazy.

Source: tatoeba (21789)

Stop being lazy and find something to do.

Source: tatoeba (24271)

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