word-vault/dist/data/cards/la/lazy.json

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{
    "term": "lazy",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "unwilling to work or be active; doing as little as possible",
            "sensetop": "too lazy to do something",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was not stupid, just lazy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was feeling too lazy to go out.",
                    "contextForm": "too lazy to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's just plain lazy."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "idle",
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not involving much energy or activity; slow and relaxed",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We spent a lazy day on the beach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His smile was slow, almost lazy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She smiled a lazy smile."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "showing a lack of effort or care",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a lazy piece of work"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of us are intellectually lazy about large areas of the world around us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We thought we were winning, so we **got lazy**."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "moving slowly",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the lazy river"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "torpid"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈleɪzi/",
                "audio": "la/lazy/lazy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈleɪzi/",
                "audio": "la/lazy/lazy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: perhaps related to Low German lasich ‘languid, idle’."
}