| 单词 | procrastinator |
| 释义 | procrastinator (once / 89541 pages) n A procrastinator is a person who delays or puts things off — like work, chores, or other actions — that should be done in a timely manner. A procrastinator is likely to leave all the Christmas shopping until December 24th. Procrastinator comes from the Latin verb procrastinare, which means deferred until tomorrow. The prefix pro means forward, and crastinus means of or belonging to tomorrow. If you've always been known in your family as a procrastinator, your sister has probably gotten used to receiving her birthday card at Christmas time and her Christmas present in July. WORD FAMILYprocrastinator: procrastinators+/procrastinate: procrastinated, procrastinates, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinator/procrastination: procrastinations USAGE EXAMPLESPolice rang doorbells and used vans with loudspeakers to urge procrastinators to leave ahead of a 10 a.m. deadline. Time(Dec 25, 2016) Police vans with loudspeakers urged procrastinators to leave ahead of a 10 a.m. deadline. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) But the high percentage of procrastinators means those providers are flooded with RMD requests this time of year. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) n someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) Syn|Hyper cunctator, postponer delayer a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late |
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