Describes a person who finds things bothersome and avoids effort. Can refer to the trait or a person with that trait. Often used in self-deprecation or mild criticism.
He is lazy and never cleans his room.
Because of my lazy nature, I always end up right at the deadline.
ものぐさ and 無精 both describe a habitual aversion to effort in casual speech, but ものぐさ leans toward describing a person's character trait rather than a specific act of neglect.
ものぐさ describes someone lazy who avoids small chores, the opposite of 小まめ, which describes attentively doing them.
Kana spelling is standard; usually written in kana.
Single-kanji form meaning laziness; marked as rarely used.
Kanji form using 物 (thing) and 臭 (stink), implying a 'stink of laziness'. Rarely used in modern writing.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; included as a search-only form.
From 物臭, literally describing an aversion to or reluctance toward doing things; it consequently came to denote laziness and a lazy person.