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Definitions of lazy

1. disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. Webster Dictionary DB

4. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. Webster Dictionary DB

5. Wicked; vicious. Webster Dictionary DB

6. Not inclined to action or work; idle; indolent. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

7. Lasily. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

8. Laziness. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

9. Lazier. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

10. Laziest. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

11. Disinclined to exertion: averse to labor: sluggish: tedious. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

12. LAZILY. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

13. Indisposed to action; indolent. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

14. Indisposed to exertion; slothful; slow. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

15. Disinclined to exertion; averse to labour; slothful; sluggish. Lazy bed, a bed in which potatoes are laid on the surface of the ground, and earth thrown on them. Lazy bones, a lazy fellow. Lazy tongs, a series of scissors, each pair fitted on to the end of the other, by which a person may catch hold of a thing at a distance without rising. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

16. Disinclined to exertion; indolent; unwilling to work. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

17. l[=a]'zi, adj. disinclined to exertion: averse to labour: sluggish: tedious.--v.i. LAZE, to be lazy.--adv. L[=A]'ZILY.--ns. L[=A]'ZINESS, state or quality of being lazy; L[=A]'ZY-BED, a bed for growing potatoes, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides; L[=A]'ZYBONES (coll.), a lazy person, an idler; L[=A]'ZY-JACK, a jack constructed of compound levers pivoted together; L[=A]'ZY-PIN'ION (see IDLE-WHEEL).--n.pl. L[=A]'ZY-TONGS, tongs consisting of a series of diagonal levers pivoted together at the middle and ends, capable of being extended by a movement of the scissors-like handles so as to pick up objects at a distance. [M. E. lasche--O. Fr. lasche (Fr. lâche), slack, weak, base--L. laxus, loose.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

18. Averse to labour, indolent, slothful; appropriate to or inducing indolence; l.-bed, bed for potato-growing about 6 ft wide with trench on each side; l. -bones, l. person; l.-pinion, serving as transmitter of motion between other pinions or wheels; l.-tongs, arrangement of zigzag levers for picking up distant objects; hence lazily adv., laziness n. (Vb) =LAZE. Concise Oxford Dictionary