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idle

• (a) not in action or at work
  • an idle laborer
  • idle drifters
  • the idle rich
  • an idle mind
• (s) without a basis in reason or fact
  • baseless gossip
  • the allegations proved groundless
  • idle fears
  • unfounded suspicions
  • unwarranted jealousy
  baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild,
• (s) not in active use
  • the machinery sat idle during the strike
  • idle hands
  unused,
• (s) silly or trivial
  • idle pleasure
  • light banter
  • light idle chatter
  light,
• (s) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
  • idle talk
  • a loose tongue
  loose,
• (s) not yielding a return
  • dead capital
  • idle funds
  dead,
• (s) not having a job
  • idle carpenters
  • jobless transients
  • many people in the area were out of work
  jobless, out of work,

Nouns

• (n) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
  • the car engine was running at idle

Verbs

• (v) run disconnected or idle
  • the engine is idling
  tick over,
• (v) be idle; exist in a changeless situation
  • The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
  • He slugged in bed all morning
  laze, slug, stagnate,

Synonyms

tick over baseless groundless unfounded unwarranted wild laze slug stagnate unused light loose dead jobless out of work

Antonyms

busy run work

See also

ineffective ineffectual uneffective unemployed

Words of close approximity