Crossword clues for procrastination
procrastination
- Deferral of favourable credit on wine country
- Part 3 of the quip
- Start of a quip about putting things off
- Theme of this puzzle, finally
- The art of putting things off for tomorrow
- The art of putting things off
- Start of a slacker's quip
- Hamlet's weakness
- Deliberate delay of a decision
- "Do tomorrow" strategy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procrastination \Pro*cras`ti*na"tion\, n. [L. procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination.] The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
--Young.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French procrastination and directly from Latin procrastinationem (nominative procrastinatio) "a putting off from day to day," noun of action from past participle stem of procrastinare "put off till tomorrow, defer, delay," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + crastinus "belonging to tomorrow," from cras "tomorrow," of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. The act of postpone, delay or put off, especially habitually or intentionally.
WordNet
n. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time [syn: cunctation, shillyshally]
slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn: dilatoriness]
Wikipedia
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. It is the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones, thus putting off impending tasks to a later time. Sometimes, procrastination takes place until the "last minute" before a deadline. Procrastination can take hold on any aspect of life — putting off cleaning the stove, repairing a leaky roof, seeing a doctor or dentist, submitting a job report or academic assignment or broaching a stressful issue with a partner. Procrastination can lead to feelings of guilt, inadequacy, depression and self-doubt.
Usage examples of "procrastination".
Procrastination at last exhausted his assistantship money at Columbia.
Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.
In this way only do the Moors shine as politicians, unless prevarication and procrastination be included, Machiavellian arts in which they easily excel.
But hoping it will not be much later and counting on those procrastinations which usually attend the departure of vessels of size I have hopes of being with you in time.
Recently he had justified his procrastination with the never-to-be-repeated opportunity to take a look at Rivermead.