Crossword clues for procrastinate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. i. To delay; to be dilatory.
I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.
--Swift.
Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Procrastinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Procrastinating.] [L.
procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro
forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to-morrow.]
To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to
postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance.
--Dr. H.
More.
Hopeless and helpless [AE]geon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.
--Shak.
Syn: To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract; prolong.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, a back formation from procrastination or else from Latin procrastinatus, past participle of procrastinare "to put off till tomorrow; defer, delay" (see procrastination). Related: Procrastinated; procrastinating. Earlier verb was procrastine (1540s), from French.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later. 2 (context transitive English) To put off; to delay (something).
WordNet
v. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]
postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"
Usage examples of "procrastinate".
Hopefully, understanding how and why we procrastinate will help us change it.
So, they procrastinate by finding something fun to do and, then, rationalize their behavior.
Then we procrastinate to avoid our own self-created emotional dislike of the job at hand.
When we procrastinate, we quickly shift our attention away from the work that needs to be done in such an automatic and slick way that we feel good about avoiding the work--until later.
Good luck in changing, but even if you continue to procrastinate, I hope you have the happy life you are trying for.
Being a Renaissance Soul does not indicate whether you are neat or messy, or whether you promptly file your taxes in early January or procrastinate well past April 15.
She was granted him, therefore, as a guest, for the three ensuing months, to aid him to dissipate his immediate disappointment, from the procrastinated absence of Clermont.
I set out upon my so long procrastinated tour, with an idea that you are not in perfect safety, yet without attempting to point out to you your danger?
She procrastinated, however, even about writing the letter that would bring her aunt home.
Others refuse to give up procrastinating and refuse to strive for success for fear of becoming a workaholic.
If interpersonal concerns underlie your procrastinating, see chapters 8, 9 and 10.
If you are afraid that you are going to make a mistake in one of your creative efforts and therefore keep procrastinating, remind yourself that the Amish deliberately put a mistake in every quilt to honor the fact that no human is perfect.
Other clients have accomplished the same thing by procrastinating, forgetting key appointments, or losing their Focal Point notebooks.
The last had passed like the others in procrastinating from hour to hour.
So, while Aunt Patience, of Bournemouth, tarried and procrastinated, her loving nephews across the sea, thinking of her night and day, waited with as good grace as they could and played the game!