Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or habit of procrastinating; a putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
- n. slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
Etymologies
- From Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō ("procrastinate"), from prō + crāstinus ("of tomorrow"), from crās ("tomorrow"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And now my procrastination is yours. posted by Matthew @ 1: 30 PM”
“To be sure, there are many more underlying causes to what we call procrastination, most of which require keen self awareness and the willingness to learn and grow.”
“However, dealing with procrastination is never easy, I have to admit.”
“In this space procrastination is not invited and I like that.”
“Chronic procrastination is the symptom of an underlying psychological disorder not the diagnosis.”
“Writing, in ways that extend way beyond social media and procrastination, is really very much about discipline.”
“My way around procrastination is to stand up at my desk rather than sitting which works surprisingly well.”
““My way around procrastination is to stand up at my desk””
“One of my favourite forms of procrastination is searching out food blogs when I can't decide what my characters will eat for a meal.”
“Another frequent component of procrastination is the expectation of perfection: the words have to be right, and there's no point in starting until you are confident that they will be.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘procrastination’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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hunting
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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beautiful words
phantasmagoric, basorexia, sapiosexual, nomophobia, procrastination, resuscitate, onomatopoeia, serendipity, cataglottism, parochial, humbug, spelunking
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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oarslan's list
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procrastination time
procrastination, Procrastination, Countermeasures, Binny's, Morgado, elevational
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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education
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2002
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asseverate, sentient, malapropos, agitprop, fiat, nimiety, surreptitious, pleonasm, abominate, discursive, countervail, myrmidon and 113 more...
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Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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barnaby's Words
coccyx, procrastination, bollocks, mufti, meme, paraphernalia, endomorph, millpond, cheesecake, pterodactyl, cheesecloth, ethnographic and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for procrastination.
dipannita tomorrow...dat after tomorrow...next week n so on... Feb 24, 2010
marky This is what I've been doing on my Wordnik API project.. don't worry, starting now.. Feb 17, 2010
jeromicito Little "p" procrastination is what mothers have warned their children of for centuries, leading the kids to read blogs and waste their time leaving comments about big "P" Procrastination and little "p" procrastination. Go on, watch that Procrastination video on YouTube one more time. You know you want to watch: " link Nov 13, 2009
jeromicito Procrastination is checking Ze Frank's blog and finding this video he liked up on YouTube: procrastination Nov 13, 2009
PossibleUnderscore My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Jul 28, 2009
PossibleUnderscore I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
-Steven Wright Jul 26, 2009
chained_bear Nah. You should wait to erase it. I mean, it isn't like it's going anywhere. May 1, 2009
reesetee Wait, wait, wait. Haven't you guys ever heard of National On-Hold Month? Geez.
And just so you know, I was going to post this message the other day, but I didn't get to it until now. In fact, I feel like it's so early that I may just erase it and wait until later to post it. May 1, 2009
gangerh The People of Procrastistan. Apr 25, 2009
chained_bear Whoa, whoa, bilby! Slow down! Jeez, what's the rush? Apr 25, 2009
bilby Dontcry's right. We can revisit the issue of setting an agenda item to discuss a start date for consideration of the temporary listing at the end of summer. If that's not rushing things. Apr 24, 2009
dontcry If it's May already you might as well wait until summer is over -- it's such a busy time anyway. Apr 24, 2009
gangerh Maybe May may be a good time to start procrastinating. Apr 24, 2009
gangerh Yea. May be next week. Apr 24, 2009
Prolagus Next weekend, yes. But is bilby really planning to do some work during the weekend? Apr 24, 2009
mollusque Isn't May next week? Or did someone postpone it? Apr 24, 2009
Prolagus Next week?! The world isn't gonna blow up if you wait until May. Apr 24, 2009
bilby We can't possibly both do it tomorrow. We'll have to do it next week then. Apr 24, 2009
gangerh Funny, I was going to start some tomorrow. Apr 24, 2009
bilby It's on my list of words to consider listing tomorrow. Apr 24, 2009
mollusque Bilby, weren't you going to list this? Apr 24, 2009