procrastinate
English edit
Etymology edit
Either back-formation from procrastination, or from Latin prōcrastinātum, past participle of prōcrastinō (“defer, put off till tomorrow”), from prō (“in favor of”) + crāstinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
- (US) enPR: prō-krăs'tə-nāt', IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, /pɹəˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/
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- (General Australian) IPA(key): /pɹəˈkɹæs.tɪ.næɪt/
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Verb edit
procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)
- (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.
- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
- (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).
- 1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4:
- Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.
Synonyms edit
- procrastine (obsolete)
- (intransitive): delay, penelopize, stall
- (transitive): delay, postpone, put off, stall
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
put off; to delay taking action
put off; delay something
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “procrastinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “procrastinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “procrastinate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
procrastinate
- inflection of procrastinare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
procrastinate f pl
Latin edit
Verb edit
prōcrāstināte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
procrastinate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of procrastinar combined with te