From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
lazy
adj 1: moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white
clouds"; "at a lazy pace"
2: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose
rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on";
"too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth";
"slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily
work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, otiose,
slothful, work-shy]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Lazy \La"zy\, a. [Compar. Lazier; superl. Laziest.] [OE.
lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L.
lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.]
1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle;
shirking work. --Bacon.
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2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
"The night owl's lazy flight." --Shak.
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3. Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --B. Jonson.
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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great
extension, originally made for picking up something at a
distance, now variously applied in machinery.
Syn: Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See Idle.
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