What is another word for idle?
929 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈaɪ_d_əl], [ ˈa͡ɪdə͡l], [ ˈaɪdəl]Table of Contents
Similar words for idle:- all (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- fallow (adjective)
- free (adjective)
- frivolous (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- groundless (adjective)
- hebetudinous (adjective)
- otiose (adjective)
- out of work (adjective)
- passive (adjective)
- quiescent (adjective)
- sedentary (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- shiftless (adjective)
- slack (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-footed (adjective)
- slow-going (adjective)
- slow-paced (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- stuporous (adjective)
- torpid (adjective)
- trifling (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- unemployed (adjective)
- unfounded (adjective)
- unoccupied (adjective)
- unprofitable (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- unused (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- vacant (adjective)
- vagabond (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- virgin/virginal (adjective)
- wasted (adjective)
- worthless, ineffective (adjective)
- baseless (noun)
- bone-idle (noun)
- bone-lazy (noun)
- empty (noun)
- faineant (noun)
- idle (noun)
- contact (verb)
- dabble (verb)
- dally (verb)
- dawdle (verb)
- fritter (verb)
- poke (verb)
- rest (verb)
- slack/slacken (verb)
- spend (verb)
- stagnate (verb)
- trifle (verb)
- vegetate (verb)
- other synonyms
- dabble
- discouraging
- fool around
- fritter
- idle
- rest
- stagnate
- trifle
Definition for Idle:
Synonyms for Idle:
adj.
•all (adjective) •empty (adjective)- in sipid,
- un substantial,
- dis honest,
- in expressive,
- un-intelligent,
- in-sincerest,
- un-satisfactory,
- in-sipid,
- un intelligent,
- un-real,
- in-expressive,
- un real,
- de void,
- in sincerer,
- in sincere,
- in-sincerer,
- un satisfactory,
- un-substantial,
- de-void,
- dis-honest,
- in-sincere,
- meaningless,
- insincere,
- in sincerest.
- un seeded,
- un-developed,
- un planted,
- more unplowed,
- un cultivated,
- un-cultivated,
- most unplowed,
- neglected,
- un developed,
- un-productive,
- more unseeded,
- un tilled,
- un-planted,
- most unplanted,
- more untilled,
- un-tilled,
- un plowed,
- most unseeded,
- un-plowed,
- un productive,
- un-seeded,
- most untilled,
- more unplanted.
- flighty,
- sportive,
- more lightminded,
- unprofound,
- un profound,
- most nonserious,
- ill considered,
- non-serious,
- most lightminded,
- un-profound,
- un profoundest,
- empty headed,
- un important,
- most light-minded,
- illconsidered,
- more nonserious,
- unprofounder,
- un-profoundest,
- nonserious,
- tongue-in-cheek,
- light minded,
- flippest,
- non serious,
- ill-considered,
- lightminded,
- un-profounder,
- most sportive,
- more light minded,
- un-important,
- facetious,
- most light minded,
- unprofoundest,
- playful,
- more light-minded,
- light-minded,
- un profounder.
- most unprolific,
- most gainless,
- wild goose chase,
- more gainless,
- sterile,
- un available,
- in fertile,
- in-fertile,
- spinning wheels,
- un-fruitful,
- un successful,
- more profitless,
- un-successful,
- un fruitful,
- profitless,
- un-prolific,
- spinning ones wheels,
- un prolific,
- spinning one wheels,
- un-available,
- more unprolific,
- most profitless.
- most resultless,
- more impracticable,
- out window,
- save one breath,
- in-sufficient,
- un-needed,
- in sufficient,
- more resultless,
- insufficient,
- save breath,
- save ones breath,
- un needed.
- yielding,
- placid,
- walking through it,
- acquiescent,
- complaisant,
- calm,
- unassertive,
- poker-faced,
- nonresistant,
- inert,
- hands off,
- submissive,
- going through motions,
- unresisting,
- non-violent,
- non-resistant.
- more deskbound,
- desk bound,
- more desk-bound,
- most deskbound,
- deskest,
- most desk bound,
- most desk-bound,
- more desk bound.
- most beguiling,
- most casuistic,
- un truest,
- more casuistic,
- most sophistical,
- more sophistical,
- in correct,
- in accurate,
- un-truest,
- un-truer,
- un truer.
- in considerable,
- idling,
- in consequential,
- no big thing,
- trifling,
- in-consequential,
- in-considerable,
- forget it.
- most unexercised,
- most unapplied,
- under-employed,
- more unexercised,
- more leisured,
- on the bench,
- more unapplied,
- more underemployed,
- on shelf,
- un-employed,
- un exercised,
- more workless,
- under employed,
- un applied,
- on the shelf,
- un-exercised,
- on bench,
- un employed,
- most workless,
- un-applied,
- most leisured,
- most underemployed.
- re maining,
- most brand,
- un accustomed,
- un used,
- more brand-,
- un-used,
- more brand,
- most brand-,
- brand new,
- un familiar,
- un-accustomed,
- un-familiar.
- unfunctional,
- non-functional,
- unusuable,
- bootless,
- counterproductive,
- ineffectual,
- counter-productive,
- Unpurposed,
- of no use,
- nonfunctional,
- scrapper,
- unusable,
- no good,
- inutile.
- most unexpressive,
- more untaken,
- more unexpressive,
- un-expressive,
- unfilled,
- un-tenanted,
- Untaken,
- more untenanted,
- more tenantless,
- un-filled,
- un-taken,
- un taken,
- un filled,
- most untaken,
- most tenantless,
- un expressive,
- un tenanted,
- most untenanted.
- un-settled,
- most perambulatory,
- most sauntering,
- most mendicant,
- most shifting,
- most journeying,
- most strolling,
- more rootless,
- perambulant,
- more journeying,
- most rootless,
- fancy free,
- more mendicant,
- most perambulant,
- fancyfree,
- peripatetic,
- more sauntering,
- more perambulant,
- more straggling,
- more travelling,
- most drifting,
- most itinerate,
- more strolling,
- more perambulatory,
- most travelling,
- more drifting,
- un settled,
- most straggling,
- more itinerate.
- un-defiled,
- un-touched,
- most untapped,
- un triedest,
- un disturbed,
- un-tried,
- in-nocent,
- un tried,
- un defiled,
- in tact,
- un sullied,
- un corrupted,
- virgin,
- unspoiled,
- un spoiled,
- un tested,
- in-tact,
- un tapped,
- more untapped,
- in nocent,
- un marred,
- un-sullied,
- un-corrupted,
- un-triedest,
- un trieder,
- un-spoiled,
- un-trieder,
- un-marred,
- un touched,
- un-tested,
- un-tapped.
n.
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- perfunctory,
- careless,
- complacent,
- like a bull in a china shop,
- casual,
- remiss,
- slipshod,
- complacency.
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- sluggard,
- industrious.
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- at full stretch,
- full.
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- true,
- half-assed,
- supine.
v.
•contact (verb) •dabble (verb)- flirts with,
- trifled with,
- trifling with,
- mucking around,
- wast amateur,
- amusing oneself with,
- amuses with,
- playing games with,
- wrought superficially,
- fiddling with,
- toys with,
- worked superficially,
- were amateur,
- mucked around,
- flirting with,
- am amateur,
- amuse with,
- amused with,
- mucks around,
- amused oneself with,
- fiddles with,
- art amateur,
- monkeyed around,
- played games with,
- dilly dally,
- toying with,
- being amateur,
- are amateur,
- is amateur,
- monkeys around,
- was amateur,
- amusing with,
- flirted with,
- amuses oneself with,
- works superficially,
- plays games with,
- working superficially,
- trifles with,
- wert amateur.
- lollygagged,
- boondoggling,
- fools with,
- whiling away,
- fooled with,
- whiled away,
- whiles away,
- fooling with.
- sate on butt,
- diddle daddled,
- scrounging around,
- sat on butt,
- sate butt,
- sits around,
- gotten no place fast,
- bummed around,
- sitting on one's butt,
- sits on butt,
- sat on ones butt,
- lazying,
- sat ones butt,
- sat one butt,
- gat no place fast,
- diddledaddle,
- sate around,
- diddledaddling,
- sit on one butt,
- sits one butt,
- diddle-daddling,
- bumming around,
- sits on one's butt,
- sat butt,
- bums around,
- sits butt,
- sit ones butt,
- sat one's butt,
- sate on ones butt,
- diddle daddle,
- warming chair,
- sit butt,
- sit one's butt,
- shlepped along,
- sitting one's butt,
- diddle-daddles,
- diddledaddles,
- lazied,
- getting no place fast,
- sitting around,
- sat on one butt,
- warms chair,
- sitting on butt,
- gets no place fast,
- diddle-daddled,
- sit on ones butt,
- warming a chair,
- sate on one butt,
- sate one's butt,
- sit one butt,
- warm chair,
- sits ones butt,
- sitting ones butt,
- sitting on one butt,
- got no place fast,
- sits on ones butt,
- sit on butt,
- warmed chair,
- sate on one's butt,
- sate one butt,
- diddle daddling,
- shlepping along,
- shleps along,
- sat on one's butt,
- diddle daddles,
- sits one's butt,
- diddledaddled,
- warmed a chair,
- warms a chair,
- scrounged around,
- sits on one butt,
- sitting on ones butt,
- sitting one butt,
- sate ones butt,
- sat around,
- sitting butt,
- scrounges around.
- is wasteful with,
- being wasteful with,
- wast wasteful with,
- mis spends,
- mis-spending,
- diddling away,
- am wasteful with,
- mis spend,
- are wasteful with,
- spending like water,
- was wasteful with,
- mis spending,
- diddled away,
- frivolled,
- wert wasteful with,
- frivols,
- art wasteful with,
- mis-spend,
- spends like water,
- frivoled,
- runs through,
- diddles away,
- mis-spends,
- casts away,
- spent like water,
- frivolling,
- were wasteful with.
- takes a break,
- refreshes oneself,
- winds down,
- taking life easy,
- took five,
- un-lax,
- be ease,
- being ease,
- are comfortable,
- unlaxing,
- easing up,
- wound down,
- am ease,
- refreshed oneself,
- lies still,
- art comfortable,
- un-bend,
- take break,
- un wound,
- taking break,
- wert comfortable,
- took time out,
- lying still,
- lied down,
- re sting,
- sitting down,
- un bend,
- un-winds,
- takes nap,
- are ease,
- composes oneself,
- lying by,
- wert at ease,
- un-wind,
- slacked off,
- took ten,
- sits down,
- taking five,
- re-sting,
- un bends,
- being at ease,
- takes five,
- took a break,
- took nap,
- takes time out,
- un winding,
- am comfortable,
- wast at ease,
- takes ten,
- was at ease,
- un-wound,
- un-bending,
- art at ease,
- is ease,
- am at ease,
- un bended,
- taking ten,
- eases up,
- wast ease,
- wast comfortable,
- take nap,
- un bending,
- taking a nap,
- un wind,
- un-bended,
- un-bent,
- took break,
- took life easy,
- being comfortable,
- un-winding,
- lies by,
- takes break,
- slacks off,
- unlaxed,
- stretching out,
- were at ease,
- is at ease,
- un-bends,
- lay still,
- took a nap,
- composed oneself,
- sate down,
- lied still,
- putting feet up,
- were comfortable,
- refreshing oneself,
- eased off,
- was comfortable,
- was ease,
- winded down,
- are at ease,
- taking time out,
- is comfortable,
- un winds,
- taking nap,
- lied by,
- wert ease,
- takes life easy,
- puts feet up,
- unlaxes,
- were ease,
- un bent,
- composing oneself,
- un lax,
- eases off.
- lay down job,
- lie down job,
- lied down on job,
- lying down on job,
- lies down on job,
- un tightens,
- lying down job,
- re duces,
- re lease,
- re-duce,
- un-tightens,
- re duce,
- lays back,
- re-leased,
- lies down job,
- lay down on job,
- un tightening,
- laying back,
- un tightened,
- un tighten,
- re-lease,
- un-tightened,
- re leases,
- un-tightening,
- un-tighten,
- lied down job,
- re-leases,
- re-duces.
- de-votes,
- de votes,
- de voting,
- de voted,
- de-voted,
- de-voting,
- lets pass,
- de-vote,
- letted pass,
- mis using,
- de vote,
- mis-used,
- letting pass,
- mis-using,
- mis used.
- amused oneself,
- being insincere,
- amuses oneself,
- monkeys with,
- uses up,
- was insincere,
- futzing around,
- is insincere,
- indulged in,
- plays with,
- winking at,
- monkeyed with,
- messing with,
- messed with,
- futzed around,
- wert insincere,
- fribbles,
- monkeying with,
- winks at,
- indulges in,
- art insincere,
- were insincere,
- indulging in,
- amusing oneself,
- fribbled,
- messes with,
- playing with,
- are insincere,
- wast insincere,
- futzes around.
Other synonyms:
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- off-duty,
- uptime,
- wandering,
- dilatory,
- disuse,
- disused,
- splutter,
- off-season,
- sparing,
- malfunction,
- mesh,
- off-peak,
- subdued,
- goldbrick.
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- do-nothing,
- bottomless,
- idly,
- misfire,
- backfire,
- kick over,
- available,
- cycle,
- availability,
- inoperative,
- shallow,
- struck.
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- goof,
- ping,
- engagement,
- fire,
- turn over,
- mode,
- performance.
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- roll.
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- go.
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- take.
- idles,
- toy with,
- work superficially,
- fiddle with,
- monkey around,
- flirt with,
- fiddled with,
- be amateur,
- trifle with,
- muck around,
- play games with,
- Idled,
- not be serious,
- monkeying around,
- toyed with,
- amuse oneself with.
- sat down,
- take time out,
- takes a nap,
- lie by,
- put feet up,
- lies down,
- eased up,
- Resting,
- take ten,
- unbended,
- slack off,
- take five,
- Drowsed,
- unbends,
- drowsing,
- compose oneself,
- be at ease,
- take a break,
- be comfortable,
- easing off,
- ease off,
- lie down,
- slacking off,
- taking a break,
- lie still,
- wind down,
- stretch out,
- refresh oneself,
- sit down,
- lay down,
- drowses,
- winding down,
- ease up,
- stretched out,
- unbent,
- drowse,
- lying down,
- lay by,
- unlax,
- unbend,
- take a nap,
- take life easy,
- Slumbered.
Paraphrases for Idle:
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Equivalence
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Independent
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Adjective
unutilized, unused, futile, laid-up, unexploited, inert, passive, pointless, useless, vain, hollow, unencumbered, lazy, unemployed, fruitless, unexpended, unproductive, meaningless, wait, silent, unnecessary.
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Noun, singular or mass
downtime.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
empty.
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Proper noun, singular
inactivity.
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Noun, singular or mass
inactivity.
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Verb, base form
inactive.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Idle:
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adj.
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all
busy.
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worthless, ineffective
important, used, diligent, Hustling, productive, worthwhile, effective, employed, working, active.
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Other antonyms:
perky, useful, frisky, usable, jaunty, sedulous, ambitious, pert, enterprising, animated, feasible, bouncing, peppy, tied up, practical, snappy, springy, dynamic, exuberant, viable, operable, workable, responsible, vivacious, jazzy, supported, spirited, drudging, zealous, zippy, toiling, running.
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all
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v.
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contact
run.
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contact
Idle Sentence Examples:
Homophones for Idle:
Hyponym for Idle:
n.
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state
operation.
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