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procrastinateprocrastinate /prəˈkræstəˌneɪt/ verb [intransitive] ETYMOLOGYprocrastinateOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin, past participle of procrastinare, from cras tomorrow VERB TABLEprocrastinate |
| Present | I, you, we, they | procrastinate | | he, she, it | procrastinates | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | procrastinated | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have procrastinated | | he, she, it | has procrastinated | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had procrastinated | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will procrastinate | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have procrastinated |
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| Present | I | am procrastinating | | he, she, it | is procrastinating | | you, we, they | are procrastinating | | Past | I, he, she, it | was procrastinating | | you, we, they | were procrastinating | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been procrastinating | | he, she, it | has been procrastinating | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been procrastinating | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be procrastinating | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been procrastinating |
THESAURUS to wait until a later time to do something► delay to wait until a later time to do something: We cannot delay any longer. The manager wanted to delay the bad news until after Christmas. ► postpone to change an event to a later time or date: The meeting was postponed until next week. ► put off to delay doing something, especially because you do not want to do it: Regular checkups are important – don’t put off visits to the dentist! ► procrastinate to delay doing something that you ought to do: A lot of people procrastinate when it comes to doing paperwork. ► defer formal to delay something until a later date: Ruth decided to defer college and travel for a year. ► reschedule to set a new time or date for an event, because there were problems with the original time: We had to reschedule the company picnic for next weekend because of rain. ► table to officially decide to leave an idea, a bill, etc. to be discussed or dealt with in the future: I think we should table the proposal until we can find out more about the possible problems. to delay doing something that you ought to do, usually because you do not want to do it SYN put off: Most people procrastinate when it comes to paperwork.► see thesaurus at delay1—procrastinator noun [countable]—procrastination /prəˌkræstəˈneɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] |