Tired vs. Lazy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tired and Lazy
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Tired
Exhausted of strength or energy; fatigued.
Lazy
Not willing to work or be energetic.
Tired
Impatient; bored
Tired of the same old sandwiches.
Lazy
Slow-moving; sluggish
A lazy river.
Tired
Overused; hackneyed
A tired joke.
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Lazy
Conducive to inactivity or indolence
A lazy summer day.
Tired
Simple past tense and past participle of tire
Lazy
Depicted as reclining or lying on its side. Used of a brand on livestock.
Tired
In need of some rest or sleep.
Lazy
Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
Tired
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
I'm tired of this
Lazy
Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
Tired
Overused, cliché.
A tired song
Lazy
Showing a lack of effort or care.
Lazy writing
Tired
Ineffectual; incompetent
Lazy
Sluggish; slow-moving.
We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
Tired
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
Lazy
Lax:
Tired
Depleted of strength or energy;
Tired mothers with crying babies
Too tired to eat
Lazy
Droopy.
A lazy-eared rabbit
Tired
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
Bromidic sermons
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor `hard as nails'
Lazy
(optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
Lazy
Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
Lazy
(comptheory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
A lazy algorithm
Lazy
Wicked; vicious.
Lazy
(informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
Lazy
A lazy person.
Lazy
(obsolete) Sloth (animal).
Lazy
Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
Lazy
Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
Lazy
Wicked; vicious.
Lazy
Moving slowly and gently;
Up a lazy river
Lazy white clouds
At a lazy pace
Lazy
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
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