lazily
Syllables: la·zi·ly
lazily adverb: in a lazy manner.
Adverb
lazily (comparative more lazily, superlative most lazily)
- In a lazy manner.
- She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.
- In a slow manner.
- Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203
- Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41
lazily meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
lazily in Bengali
- অলস ভাবে, ধীর গতিতে
lazily in Malayalam
- മടിയോടെ
Examples of lazily in a sentence
- My sister’s eyes were full of stardust – she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.
- A ceiling fan was going lazily, filtering the coolened air throughout the spacious living room.
- On shore, the mule's pinkish ears revolved lazily in the shade of the zaman tree.
Forms of lazily
| comparative | more lazily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lazily |
Origin of lazily
From lazy + -ly.
Questions about lazily
- What does lazily mean?
- Lazily means in a lazy manner.
- What is lazily in Bengali?
- Lazily in Bengali is অলস ভাবে, ধীর গতিতে. See Lazily meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is lazily?
- Lazily is an adverb.
Words near lazily in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lazily (page history and authors); lazily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lazily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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