i Register
In some senses, lazy is marked as informal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
Showing a lack of effort or care.
lazy writing
So it was this beautiful young woman Rokoff had been persecuting. Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.
Sluggish; slow-moving.
We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
Lax:
a lazy-eared rabbit
verb
To laze, act in a lazy manner.
“Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”
You’d see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her […]
noun
A lazy person.
The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.
1898, Jason E. Hammond, “Work and Reward” in Suggestive Programs for Special Day Exercises, Lansing, Michigan: Department of Public Instruction for District Schools, p. , The dudes and noodles, cads and snobs, had better move away, This busy land can’t spare the room for lazies, such as they, To foreign climate let them go and there forever stay. Ours is a land for busy workers.
Sloth (animal).
To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.