procrastinate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
postpone doing what one should be doing
He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
Types & categories
- delay hypernym
- procrastinate hyponym
Related & opposite
- procrastination derivation
- stalling derivation
- lounger derivation
- procrastinator derivation
Sense 2 verb
postpone or delay needlessly
He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- dilatoriness derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | procrastination |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stalling |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lounger |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | procrastinator |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | delay |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | procrastinate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilatoriness |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | delay |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | stall |