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1. Not in action or at work
   "an idle labourer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
    
2. Without a basis in reason or fact
   "idle fears";
   - baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild
    
3. Not in active use
   "idle hands"; "the machinery sat idle during the strike";
   - unused
    
4. Silly or trivial
   "idle pleasure"; "light idle chatter";
   - light
    
5. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
   "idle talk";
   - loose
    
6. Not yielding a return
   "idle funds";
   - dead
    
7. Not having a job
   "idle carpenters";
   - jobless, out of work

1. Run disconnected or idle
   "the engine is idling";
   - tick over
    
2. Be idle; exist in a changeless situation
   "He idled in bed all morning";
   - laze, slug [informal], stagnate

1. The state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
   "the car engine was running at idle"

Sounds like: hypotonicity, hypertonicidle

Derived forms: idling, idlest, idler, idled, idles

See also: bone-idle, bone-lazy, fainéant [archaic], frivolous, inactive, indolent, ineffective, ineffectual, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lazy, leisured, otiose, slothful, uneffective, unemployed, unengaged, unprofitable, unsupported, work-shy

Type of: operation

Antonym: busy, run

Encyclopedia: Idle, West Yorkshire