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

(Note: See lazied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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).

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