Other forms: procrastinated, procrastinating, procrastinates
To procrastinate is to keep putting off what you should be doing. Stop procrastinating, procrastinate until the deadline, a habit of procrastinating.
Research suggests it is about managing feelings rather than time, since people avoid tasks that make them anxious. The Latin means to put off until tomorrow, which is the definition intact after two thousand years.
1verbprocrastinateTo keep putting off what you should be doing.
“I always procrastinate by cleaning my room when I should be studying.”
procrastinate is a delaying.
Latin procrastinare means to put off until tomorrow, from pro plus cras, tomorrow.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Latin
prōcrastinātus
English, today
procrastinate
Built from
1548; from Latin prōcrastinātus, perfect passive participle of prōcrastinō (“defer, put off till tomorrow”) (see -ate), from prō- (“in favor of”) + crāstinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”) + -ō, from crās (“tomorrow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA