Procrastinate - Wiktionary

English

[edit] WOTD – 21 May 2007

Etymology

[edit]

First attested in 1548; from Latin prōcrastinātus, perfect passive participle of prōcrastinō (“defer, put off till tomorrow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from prō- (“in favor of”) + crāstinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from crās (“tomorrow”).

Pronunciation

[edit]

• (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

[edit]

procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)

1. (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later. He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
2. (transitive) To put off; to delay (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 thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.

Synonyms

[edit]

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

Antonyms

[edit]

• precrastinate

Derived terms

[edit]

• cryocrastinate
• nonprocrastinating
• procrastibaking
• procrastinatingly
• procrastination
• procrastinative
• procrastinatory
• procrasturbate
• unprocrastinated
• unprocrastinating

• procrastinator

Translations

[edit] 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: vitkutella (fi), viivytellä (fi), vitkastella (fi), jahkailla (fi), aikailla (fi), kuhnailla (fi) French: procrastiner (fr) Galician: procrastinar, enredar (gl) German: aufschieben (de), verzögern (de), vertagen (de), prokrastinieren (de) Greek: χρονοτριβώ (el) (chronotrivó), καθυστερώ (el) (kathysteró) Hungarian: késlekedik (hu), húzza az időt Indonesian: menunda (id) Indonesian: berlengah-lengah (id) Indonesian: menangguh-nangguhkan 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 (fi), viivästyttää (fi), 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) Indonesian: menunda (id) Indonesian: berlengah-lengah (id) Indonesian: menangguh-nangguhkan 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) Ottoman Turkish: صالمق (salmak) 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

[edit]

• carpe diem cras
• perendinate
• tomorrow never comes

Further reading

[edit]

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

Italian

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

procrastinate

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

Etymology 2

[edit]

Participle

[edit]

procrastinate f pl

1. feminine plural of procrastinato

Latin

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

prōcrāstināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of prōcrāstinō

Spanish

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

procrastinate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of procrastinar combined with te