Procrastinated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Put off or delayed doing something intentionally or habitually
2. Postponed taking action or making a decision beyond the planned time
3. Held back or deferred starting or completing a task often due to avoidance

Etymology: Latin "crās" meant "tomorrow," and from it came "crāstinus," "of or belonging to tomorrow." Add the prefix "prō-," meaning "in favor of" or "forward," and the verb "prōcrāstinō" emerged, roughly "to put off until tomorrow." English borrowed the word in 1548, so it has been describing the habit of postponing for nearly five centuries, its core image of pushing a task toward a tomorrow that never quite arrives intact. The past tense "procrastinated" is simply the English verb "procrastinate" with the regular "-ed" ending, marking an action completed in the past. The verb itself came from Latin "prōcrastinātus," a form built with the "-ate" suffix that English uses to turn Latin roots into verbs.

Synonyms: delayed, postponed, deferred

Antonyms: expedited, accelerated