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語源

First attested in 1548; from Latin prōcrastinātus, perfect passive participle of prōcrastinō (“defer, put off till tomorrow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from prō- (“in favor of”) + crāstinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from crās (“tomorrow”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɹəʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
• (米国発音) enPR: prō-krăs'tə-nāt', IPA: /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, /pɹəˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /pɹəˈkɹæs.tɪ.næɪt/

動詞

procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)

1. (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.

   He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.

2. (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).
   • 1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4:

     Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.

同意語

• procrastine (obsolete)
• (intransitive): delay, penelopize, stall
• (transitive): delay, postpone, put off, stall

反意語

• precrastinate

派生語

• procrastinator

参考

• perendinate
• tomorrow never comes

Further reading

• “procrastinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “procrastinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “procrastinate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.