Procrastinating

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Procrastinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Procrastinating}.] [L.
     procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro
     forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to-morrow.]
     To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to
     postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. --Dr. H.


     More.
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           Hopeless and helpless Aegeon wend,
           But to procrastinate his lifeless end.   --Shak.
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     Syn: To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract;
          prolong.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "procrastinating":
     Micawberish, backward, contemplative, culpably negligent, dallying,
     delaying, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, do-nothing, dormant,
     easygoing, foot-dragging, idle, immobile, inactive, inadvertent,
     inattentive, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-aller,
     laissez-faire, lax, lazy, lingering, loitering, loose, meditative,
     motionless, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, neuter, neutral,
     noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overly permissive,
     paralytic, paralyzed, passive, permissive, procrastinative,
     procrastinatory, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, relaxed, remiss,
     scamping, shuffling, skimping, slack, slighting, slow, sluggish,
     slurring, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary,
     uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unwary, unwatchful,
     vegetable, vegetative