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procrastinate

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English

WOTD – 21 May 2007

Etymology

First attested in 1548; fromLatinprōcrastinātus,perfect passive participle ofprōcrastinō(“defer, put off till tomorrow”) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromprō-(“in favor of”) +crāstinus(“of or belonging to tomorrow”) +-ō(verb-forming suffix), fromcrās(“tomorrow”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
(US)enPR:prō-krăs'tə-nāt',IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/,/pɹəˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/
- Audio(US): (file)
(General Australian)IPA^(key): /pɹəˈkɹæs.tɪ.næɪt/
- Audio(General Australian): (file)

Verb

procrastinate (third-person singular simple presentprocrastinates,present participleprocrastinating,simple past and past participleprocrastinated)

(intransitive) Todelay taking action; towait untillater.
Heprocrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
(transitive) Toput off; todelay (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 therebyprocrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.

Synonyms

procrastine(obsolete)
(intransitive):delay,penelopize,stall
(transitive):delay,postpone,put off,stall

Antonyms

precrastinate

Derived terms

Translations

put off; to delay taking action

Arabic:سَوَّفَ (ar)(sawwafa)
Azerbaijani:ertələmək
Bulgarian:бавя се(bavja se),мая се(maja se)
Catalan:procrastinar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:耽擱 /耽搁 (zh)(dāngē),拖延 (zh)(tuōyán)
Czech:odkládat (cs)
Dutch:uitstellen (nl),voor zich uitschuiven,soggen (nl)
Finnish:viivytellä (fi),vitkastella (fi),jahkailla (fi),aikailla (fi),kuhnailla (fi)
French:procrastiner (fr)
Galician:procrastinar,enredar
German:aufschieben (de),verzögern (de),vertagen (de),prokrastinieren (de)
Greek:χρονοτριβώ (el)(chronotrivó),καθυστερώ (el)(kathysteró)
Hungarian:késlekedik (hu),húzza az időt
Italian:procrastinare (it)
Japanese:先延ばしにする
Korean:미루다 (ko)(miruda)
Latin:procrastino
Macedonian:одложува(odložuva)
Malay:melambat-lambatkan,melewat-lewatkan,menangguh-nangguhkan,bertangguh-tangguh,menunda-nunda
Maori:tonanawe
Norwegian:somle
Portuguese:procrastinar (pt)
Romanian:amâna (ro),tărăgăna (ro),procrastina
Russian:ме́длить (ru) impf(médlitʹ),тяну́ть (ru) impf(tjanútʹ),откла́дывать (ru) impf(otkládyvatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:odugovlačiti (sh)
Spanish:hacer desidia,procrastinar (es)
Swedish:prokrastinera (sv),förhala (sv)
Thai:ผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง (th),ผัด (th)(pàt),ผัดผ่อน(pàt-pɔ̀n)
Turkish:gecikme (tr)
Yiddish:אָפּלייגן(opleygn)

put off; delay something

Azerbaijani:ertələmək
Bulgarian:отлагам (bg)(otlagam)
Catalan:procrastinar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:耽擱 /耽搁 (zh)(dāngē),拖延 (zh)(tuōyán)
Danish:udsætte (da),udskyde,forhale (da),forsinke
Dutch:uitstellen (nl),soggen (nl)
Finnish:lykätä (fi),viivyttää (fi),viivästää,viivästyttää,myöhäistää (fi),myöhästyttää (fi)
German:verschleppen (de),prokrastinieren (de)
Greek:καθυστερώ (el)(kathysteró),αναβάλλω (el)(anavállo)
Hungarian:halogat (hu),elodáz (hu),húz-halaszt (hu),elhúz (hu)
Italian:ritardare (it),posticipare (it),differire (it),rimandare (it),dilazionare (it),temporeggiare (it)
Macedonian:одолговлекува(odolgovlekuva)
Malay:menangguhkan,memperlambat
Maori:whakatonanawe,whakaroaroa
Norwegian:utsette (no)
Portuguese:procrastinar (pt)
Russian:откла́дывать (ru) impf(otkládyvatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:odlagati (sh)
Spanish:hacer desidia,procrastinar (es),dejar para después
Swedish:skjuta upp (sv),förhala (sv)
Turkish:geciktirmek (tr)

See also

Further reading

“procrastinate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “procrastinate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
“procrastinate”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

procrastinate

inflection ofprocrastinare:
1. second-person plural present indicative
2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

procrastinate f pl

feminine plural ofprocrastinato

Latin

Verb

prōcrāstināte

second-person plural present active imperative ofprōcrāstinō

Spanish

Verb

procrastinate

second-person singular voseoimperative ofprocrastinar combined withte

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