Lazy vs Insouciant - What's the difference?
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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
Carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.
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As adjectives the difference between lazy and insouciant
is that lazy is unwilling to do work or make an effort while insouciant is carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.As a verb lazy
is to laze, act in a lazy manner.lazy
English
Adjective
(er)- (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 alsoDerived terms
* laze * laziness * lazybones * lazy evaluation * lazy eye * lazy Susaninsouciant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant .
- How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!
Sean Penn: Necessary Actor," Time :
- Jack Nicholson . . . turned to an assistant, bummed a cigarette, flashed one of his wolfish, insouciant grins and said, "We all have our little secrets, Seany."