PROCRASTINATES Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

procrastinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of procrastinate

as in delays

to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc. He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline. He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work.

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Recent Examples of procrastinates Basically, the company procrastinates, to the temporary benefit of the speed-obsessives among us. —

Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2026

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The plan also maintains full scope Medi-Cal for asylees and other immigrant groups who were cut out of Medicaid by the federal government and delays Medi-Cal premiums for undocumented immigrants that would otherwise begin on July 1, 2027 to July 1, 2028.

— Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2026
According to the Terner Center at UC Berkeley, each additional public funding source an affordable developer uses, on average, delays a project four months and increases total cost by $20,460 per unit — more than $2 million for a 100-unit community.

— Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026