MEANING
To postpone a task or decision despite having reason to act.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- procrastinate over a task
- habitually procrastinate
On the page
She procrastinated until the unopened forms became urgent.
Word forms
- Base
- procrastinate
- Past tense
- procrastinated
- Past participle
- procrastinated
- Present participle
- procrastinating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- procrastinate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are procrastinating
- Present perfect
- have/has procrastinated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been procrastinating
- Past
- procrastinated
- Past continuous
- was/were procrastinating
- Past perfect
- had procrastinated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been procrastinating
- Future
- will procrastinate
- Future continuous
- will be procrastinating
- Future perfect
- will have procrastinated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been procrastinating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: procrastinate; procrastinates; procrastinated; procrastinated; procrastinating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: procrastinates.
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