| idle | | |
| n. (state) | 1. idle | the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling.; "the car engine was running at idle" |
| ~ operation | the state of being in effect or being operative.; "that rule is no longer in operation" |
| v. (contact) | 2. idle, tick over | run disconnected or idle.; "the engine is idling" |
| v. (social) | 3. idle, laze, slug, stagnate | be idle; exist in a changeless situation.; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" |
| ~ moon around, moon on, moon | be idle in a listless or dreamy way. |
| ~ ride the bench, warm the bench | be out of the game.; "Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game" |
| ~ moon, daydream | have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" |
| ~ arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time, bum, loll | be lazy or idle.; "Her son is just bumming around all day" |
| ~ lie about, lie around | hang around idly.; "She did all the work while he lay around" |
| adj. | 4. idle | not in action or at work.; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind" |
| ~ bone-idle, bone-lazy | constitutionally lazy or idle. |
| ~ faineant, indolent, slothful, work-shy, lazy, otiose | disinclined to work or exertion.; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" |
| ~ lackadaisical | idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way.; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town" |
| ~ leisured | free from duties or responsibilities.; "he writes in his leisure hours"; "life as it ought to be for the leisure classes"; "even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men" |
| ~ unengaged | not busy or occupied; free.; "the cancellation left her unengaged a good part of the afternoon" |
| ~ ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective | not producing an intended effect.; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation" |
| ~ unemployed | not engaged in a gainful occupation.; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" |
| adj. | 5. baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild | without a basis in reason or fact.; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" |
| ~ unsupported | not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid.; "unsupported accusations" |
| adj. | 6. idle, unused | not in active use.; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands" |
| ~ inactive | lacking activity; lying idle or unused.; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" |
| adj. | 7. idle, light | silly or trivial.; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter" |
| ~ frivolous | not serious in content or attitude or behavior.; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" |
| adj. | 8. idle, loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility.; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" |
| ~ irresponsible | showing lack of care for consequences.; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action" |
| adj. | 9. dead, idle | not yielding a return.; "dead capital"; "idle funds" |
| ~ unprofitable | producing little or no profit or gain.; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" |
| adj. | 10. idle, jobless, out of work | not having a job.; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work" |
| ~ unemployed | not engaged in a gainful occupation.; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" |
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