It's the Word of the Day for July 7th.
Today's word is procrastinate, spelled P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-T-E.
procrastinate is a verb.
To procrastinate is to be slow or late about doing something that should be done or about doing or attending to things in general.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Forbes by Mark Travers.
Researchers found that individuals who tend to procrastinate often do so
because they fear not meeting their high standards or worry too much about failing.
The study also showed that this fear of failure and the habit of overgeneralizing failures,
like thinking one mistake means you're a failure, strongly connect perfectionism to procrastination.
We won't put off telling you about the origins of the word procrastinate.
It comes from the Latin prefix pro-, meaning forward, and crastinus-, meaning of tomorrow.
To procrastinate is to work or move slowly, so as to fall behind.
It implies blameworthy delay, especially through laziness or apathy.
English has other words with similar meanings, such as defer and postpone,
but none places the blame so directly on the person responsible
for choosing a later time to do something.
Procrastinate is also a malleable word.
English speakers have wasted no time creating clever variations,
most of them delightfully self-explanatory.
Don't let coinages like procrastibake, procrastinetflix, and procrasticlean pass you by.