Lazy vs Mediocre - What's the difference?
lazy | mediocre |
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
Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;
As a verb lazy
is .As an adjective mediocre is
mediocre (ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality).lazy
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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 Susanmediocre
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Alternative forms
* mediocer (obsolete) * (dated)Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.