Inflections of 'procrastinate' (v): (⇒ conjugate) ; procrastinates · v 3rd person singular ; procrastinating · v pres p ; procrastinated · v past ; procrastinated · v past p
but for different reasons. Students from Western cultures tend to procrastinate in order to avoid doing worse than they have done before or failing to learn as much as they should have...
be delayed · encounter difficulty · lag behind · limp along · mark time · put off · slow down · trail behind
Synonyms for PROCRASTINATE: delay, stall, crawl, drag, temporize, play, linger, dawdle; Antonyms of PROCRASTINATE: breeze, scramble, hustle, hurtle, run, dart, hump, stampede
be careless · be derelict · be irresponsible · be negligent · be remiss · gloss over · let pass · look the other way · lose sight of · not trouble oneself · pass over · think little of
be dilatory · defer · drag one's feet · give the runaround · goldbrick · hang fire · hold off · let slide · play a waiting game · postpone · shilly-shally · suspend
procrastinate ; Other forms: procrastinating; procrastinated; procrastinates · Procrastinate means to put off doing something until a future time. When people sit down to write term papers, they can find all kinds of clever ways to procrastinate: reorganizing the paperclips, calling everyone they know, typing "I am bored" fifty times in a row. The verb procrastinate is from Latin prōcrāstināre, from prō- "forward" plus crāstinus "of tomorrow," from crās "tomorrow." Some synonyms are defer, postpone, and delay, though these words often ap ...
Thesaurus:deferment Thesaurus:procrastinate Further reading “507. expectation” in Roget's Thesaurus , T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911. “wait for” in Moby Thesaurus II , Grady Ward, 1996.
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clean forget · consign to oblivion · dismiss from mind · disremember · draw a blank · escape one's memory · fail to remember · let slip from memory · lose consciousness of · misrecollect · think no more of · unsee