Usually means: Unwilling to exert effort, inactive.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Lazy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lazy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lazy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lazy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lazy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lazy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lazy, lazy: Wordnik
  7. lazy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lazy: Wiktionary
  9. lazy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lazy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lazy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lazy, lazy: Dictionary.com
  13. lazy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lazy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lazy (Deep Purple song), Lazy (Irving Berlin song), Lazy (Suede song), Lazy (X-Press 2 song), Lazy (band), Lazy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lazy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lazy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lazy: Rhymezone
  19. lazy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lazy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lazy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lazy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lazy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lazy: Merriam-Webster
  25. Lazy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lazy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lazy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lazy, lazy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lazy)

▸ adjective:  Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
▸ adjective:  Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
▸ adjective:  Showing a lack of effort or care.
▸ adjective:  Sluggish; slow-moving.
▸ adjective:  Lax:
▸ adjective:  Droopy.
▸ adjective:  (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
▸ adjective:  (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
▸ adjective:  (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
▸ adjective:  (UK, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
▸ verb:  (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
▸ noun:  A lazy person.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Sloth (animal).

Similar:
indolent, slothful, work-shy, slow, faineant, idle, otiose, workshy, slackadaisical, lackadaisical, more...

Opposite:
active, industrious, diligent, energetic, productive

Types:
apathetic, slothful, indolent, inactive, dormant, lethargic, more...

Phrases:
lazy people, lazy Susan, lazy evaluation, lazy eye, lazy river, more...

Adjectives:
clever, more, lord, rough, lip, intolerable

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Similar:
indolent, slothful, work-shy, slow, faineant, idle, otiose, workshy, slackadaisical, lackadaisical, more...

Opposite:
active, industrious, diligent, energetic, productive

Types:
apathetic, slothful, indolent, inactive, dormant, lethargic, more...

Phrases:
lazy people, lazy Susan, lazy evaluation, lazy eye, lazy river, lazy bones, lazy eyes, lazy ass, Lazy loading, lazy initialization, lazy jack, lazy beds, bone lazy, lazy guy, lazy eights, lazy tongs, lazy jacks, more...

Adjectives:
clever, more, lord, rough, lip, intolerable

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     pastel blue,     pastel pink, more...



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