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Lazy vs Inertia - What's the difference?

lazy | inertia |

As a verb lazy

is .

As a noun inertia is

(physics|uncountable|or|countable) the property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

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
  • 1000 English basic words

    inertia

    Noun

  • (physics, uncountable, or, countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
  • (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  • * Carlyle
  • Men have immense irresolution and inertia .
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
  • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
  • (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
  • Synonyms

    * (unwillingness to take action) idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

    Derived terms

    * inertial * inertia welding * moment of inertia