lazy

5 definitions • 8 examples

not willing to work or use any effort:

Managers had complained that the workers were lazy and unreliable.

Get out of bed, you lazy thing!

He's too lazy to walk to work.

slow and relaxed:

We spent a lazy day on the beach sunbathing.

not willing or not wanting to work or use effort to do something:

If you weren’t so lazy we could start fixing up the house.

If you describe an event or activity as lazy, you mean that it is slow and gentle, or does not involve much effort:

a lazy breeze

We spent a lazy afternoon sunbathing on the beach.

not willing to work hard or make an effort:

His line manager felt that he was brilliant but lazy.