procrastinate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/pɹəʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
See all 4 pronunciations
/pɹəʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/ · /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/(US) · /pɹəˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/(US) · /pɹəˈkɹæs.tɪ.næɪt/

Definition of procrastinate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.”
See all 2 definitions

verb

  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).
    “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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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”).

Anagrams of procrastinate

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from procrastinate

200+ playable · top: CERATOPSIAN (15 pts)

Best play ceratopsian 15 points

11-letter words

5 words

10-letter words

18 words

9-letter words

87 words

8-letter words

89 words

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

A single letter you can add to procrastinate to make another valid word.

Find your best play with procrastinate

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes procrastinate, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.