Procrastinate
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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