Reluctant vs Lazy - What's the difference?
reluctant | lazy |
Opposing; offering resistance (to).
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
* 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
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
As adjectives the difference between reluctant and lazy
is that reluctant is opposing; offering resistance (to) while lazy is unwilling to do work or make an effort.As a verb lazy is
to laze, act in a lazy manner.reluctant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
- They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
- She was reluctant to lend him the money
Synonyms
* unwilling, disinclinedExternal links
* * *lazy
English
Adjective
(er)- (Ben Jonson)
