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Lazy vs Bored - What's the difference?

lazy | bored |

As adjectives the difference between lazy and bored

is that lazy is unwilling to do work or make an effort while bored is suffering from boredom.

As verbs the difference between lazy and bored

is that lazy is to laze, act in a lazy manner while bored is past tense of bore.

lazy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
  • Requiring little or no effort.
  • Relaxed or leisurely.
  • (label) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
  • (label) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.
  • (label) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
  • wicked; vicious
  • (Ben Jonson)

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.

    Synonyms

    * (unwilling to work) bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy * See also

    Derived terms

    * laze * laziness * lazybones * lazy evaluation * lazy eye * lazy Susan

    Verb

  • (label) To laze, act in a lazy manner
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    bored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bore)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
  • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
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