procrastinator

noun

Definition of procrastinatornext
as in sluggard

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Recent Examples of procrastinator That's the price of being a procrastinator. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025 That’s the price of being a procrastinator. — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025 That’s not to suggest Friedman is a procrastinator. — Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 May 2026 So, consider this the procrastinator's ultimate gift guide. — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 18 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for procrastinator
  1. sluggard
  2. slouch
  3. idler
Noun
  • Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
  • Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
Definition of sluggard
Noun
  • Lucky Brand’s 410 model has gone on sale — all the more reason to cosign its deep indigo wash, contrast stitching, mid-rise waist, and subtle slouch.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
  • Cape Verde qualified by winning a group that included African powers Cameroon, so this team is no slouch.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 15 June 2026
Definition of slouch
Noun
  • Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
    — Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This represents the loss of an idea of what the capital should represent, the removal of a place that was an idler’s haven.
    — Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
Definition of idler

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