idle
Meaning of idle
adjective
- (of a person) avoiding work; lazy.
idle students
- without purpose or effect; pointless.
he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter
- spend time doing nothing.
four men were idling outside the shop
we idled the afternoon away
- (of an engine) run slowly while disconnected from a load or out of gear.
Nadine kept the engine idling
Old English īdel ‘empty, useless’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ijdel ‘vain, frivolous, useless’ and German eitel ‘bare, worthless’.
Information about idle
- The plural form of idle is: idles.
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Hyphenation of idle
idle
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- idle is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
idle synonyms
Meaning baseless:
baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild
Meaning unused:
Meaning light:
Meaning loose:
Meaning dead:
Meaning jobless:
Meaning laze:
Meaning unwilling to work or use energy:
Meaning wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy:
Meaning lazy:
Meaning characterized by laziness, indolence, and a lack of ambition:
Meaning spend one's time in an aimless, idle way:
Meaning not engaging in or involving any or much physical activity:
Meaning lacking the ability or strength to move:
Meaning lacking energy or alertness:
Meaning affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic:
Meaning characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind:
Meaning (of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm:
Meaning mentally or physically inactive; lethargic:
Meaning lacking care or attention to duty; negligent:
Meaning failing to take proper care over something:
Meaning not taut or held tightly in position; loose:
Meaning not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful:
Meaning lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy:
Meaning not feeling or showing emotion:
Meaning acting or done at leisure; unhurried or relaxed:
Meaning serving no practical purpose or result:
Meaning not having any serious purpose or value:
Meaning of little value or importance:
Meaning unimportant or trivial:
Meaning lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance:
Meaning of little importance; trivial:
Meaning lacking good sense or judgement; unwise:
Meaning of thin material or build and weighing less than average:
Meaning of little depth:
Meaning existing or occurring at or on the surface:
Meaning too small or unimportant to be worth consideration:
Meaning lacking in importance or significance:
Meaning having no real value or use:
Meaning having no value; worthless:
Meaning having little or no sense, use, or purpose:
Meaning (of an amount) very small or meagre:
Meaning causing slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety:
Meaning relating to or situated on the edge or periphery of something:
Meaning lacking sense or meaning; silly:
Meaning silly and pointless:
Meaning lacking common sense; wildly foolish:
Meaning having no meaning or significance:
Meaning done or made with no discernible point or purpose:
Meaning not needed:
Meaning live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way:
Meaning (of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak:
Meaning decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally:
Meaning slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect:
Meaning behave in a lazy, indolent, or clumsy way:
Meaning spend time aimlessly; idle:
Meaning waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters:
Meaning pass time in a leisurely manner:
Meaning stand or wait around without apparent purpose:
Meaning move or cause to move in a specified direction:
Meaning give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something:
Meaning take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing or achieving something; employ:
Meaning give work to (someone) and pay them for it:
Meaning reside or have one's place of business in (a building):
Meaning cause (a space or container) to become full or almost full:
Meaning charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way:
Meaning spend or use up (a resource such as money or energy):
Meaning give all or most of one's time or resources to (a person or activity):
Meaning use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
Meaning (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear:
Meaning cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing):
idle antonyms
Meaning diligent and hard-working:
Meaning demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application:
Meaning having meaning:
Anagrams of idle
deil, deli, diel, eild, Idel, Leid, Lide, lied
Words that rhyme with idle
daidle, paidle, Bidle, didle, unidle, bridle, overidle, unbridle, crabsidle, sidle
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