(โพรแครส'ทิเนท) vi., vt. หน่วงเหนี่ยว, ทำให้ชักช้า, ผลัดวันประกันพรุ่ง, เลื่อน, See also: procrastination n. procrastinative, procrastinatory adj. procrastinator n., Syn. put off
[さきのばしにする, sakinobashinisuru] (exp, vs-i) to delay; to put off; to procrastinate[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Procrastinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Procrastinating}.] [L.
procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro
forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to-morrow.]
To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to
postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. --Dr. H.
More.
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Hopeless and helpless Aegeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end. --Shak.
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Syn: To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract;
prolong.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. i.
To delay; to be dilatory.
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I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.
--Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
procrastinate
v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want
to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn:
{procrastinate}, {stall}, {drag one's feet}, {drag one's
heels}, {shillyshally}, {dilly-dally}, {dillydally}]
2: postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter
until it was almost too late"
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