Procrastinate vs Lazy - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between procrastinate and lazy

is that procrastinate is to put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later while lazy is to laze, act in a lazy manner.

unwilling to do work or make an effort.

(procrastinat)

To put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later.

He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.

To put off; to delay (something).

* procrastination * procrastinator

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(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)

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

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

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

(label) To laze, act in a lazy manner

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