procrastination

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=cras=ti=na=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

procrastination, n. [L. procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination.].

 The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.  [1913 Webster]
"Procrastination is the thief of time."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

procrastination

Fabian policy, Micawberism, a wise passiveness, backwardness, contemplation, contemplative life, continuation, culpa, culpable negligence, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, default, dereliction, dilatoriness, dillydallying, disregard, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, extension, failure, hesitation, hold-off, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, indolence, inertia, inertness, laches, lag, lagging, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lapse, laxity, laxness, lengthening, lingering, loitering, lollygagging, looseness, meditation, mugwump, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonfeasance, noninterference, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonperformance, nonresistance, nonrestriction, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, omission, overlooking, oversight, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permissiveness, policy, poor stewardship, prolongation, protraction, quiescence, quietism, remissness, shilly-shallying, slackness, slight, slowness, stagnancy, stagnation, stall, standpattism, stasis, tarrying, temporization, unrigorousness, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

ROGET THESAURUS

procrastination

Inactivity

N inactivity, inaction, inertness, obstinacy, lull, quiescence, rust, rustiness, idleness, remissness, sloth, indolence, indiligence, dawdling, ergophobia, otiosity, dullness, languor, segnity, segnitude, lentor, sluggishness, procrastination, torpor, torpidity, torpescence, stupor, somnolence, drowsiness, nodding, oscitation, oscitancy, pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep, slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep, Morpheus, Somnus, coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore, hypnology, dull work, pottering, relaxation, Castle of Indolence, lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, torpedo, idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus, do- little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant, bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone, lubber, lubbard, slow coach (slow, ), opium eater, lotus eater, slug, lag, sluggard, slugabed, slumberer, dormouse, marmot, waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus, inactive, motionless, unoccupied, unbusied, indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish, exanimate, soulless, listless, drony, dronish, lazy as Ludlam's dog, dilatory, laggard, lagging, slow, rusty, flagging, lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle, pottering, shilly-shally, sleeping asleep, fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep, in a sound sleep, sound as a top, dormant, comatose, in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus, sleepy, sleepful, dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical, somnifacient, statuvolent, statuvolic, heavy, heavy with sleep, napping, somnific, somniferous, soporous, soporific, soporiferous, hypnotic, balmy, dreamy, unawakened, unawakened, sedative, inactively, at leisure, the eyes begin to draw straws, bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease, better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay, idly busy rolls their world away, the mystery of folded sleep, the timely dew of sleep, thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep, tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.

Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.