Synonyms for Idle:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • unused,
  • dead,
  • loose,
  • idle,
  • light.
  •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.
  •fallow (adjective)
  • 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.
  •free (adjective)
  • not tied down,
  • freest,
  • unhampered,
  • at leisure,
  • unengaged.
  •frivolous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fruitless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •futile (adjective)
  • 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.
  •groundless (adjective)
  • unwarranted,
  • unprovoked,
  • illogical,
  • unsupported,
  • Foundationless,
  • uncalled for,
  • causeless.
  •hebetudinous (adjective)
  • nebbest,
  • nebber.
  •inactive (adjective)
  • out of service,
  • in holding pattern,
  • low key,
  • dormant,
  • draggy,
  • quiescent,
  • still,
  • out of action,
  • unworking,
  • sleepy,
  • Snail-paced,
  • unmoving,
  • do nothing,
  • motionless,
  • stationary,
  • lifeless,
  • on hold,
  • mothballed,
  • somnolent.
  •inanimate (adjective)
  • in animate,
  • in-animate,
  • most exanimate,
  • in-sensate,
  • ex-animate,
  • most mineral,
  • most azoic,
  • more nonvegetable,
  • ex animate,
  • non-animal,
  • more exanimate,
  • mineral,
  • non animal,
  • more mineral,
  • non vegetable,
  • most nonanimal,
  • more nonanimal,
  • in sensate,
  • non-vegetable,
  • more azoic,
  • most nonvegetable.
  •indolent (adjective)
  • droniest,
  • dronier.
  •ineffective (adjective)
  • more slack-spined,
  • slack spined,
  • most emasculate,
  • in effective,
  • more emasculate,
  • slack-spined,
  • more slack spined,
  • most slack spined,
  • most slackspined,
  • most slack-spined,
  • more slackspined,
  • in-effective,
  • slackspined.
  •ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
  • in-decisive,
  • more neutralized,
  • more anticlimactic,
  • in competent,
  • in decisive,
  • most anticlimactic,
  • de feasible,
  • in-vertebrate,
  • most neutralized,
  • null void,
  • most forceless,
  • invertebrate,
  • un-ablest,
  • more ineffective,
  • most defeasible,
  • more invertebrate,
  • anti-climactic,
  • more defeasible,
  • more forceless,
  • de-feasible,
  • in-nocuous,
  • un ablest,
  • in nocuous,
  • un-abler,
  • in adequate,
  • most invertebrate,
  • in-adequate,
  • anti climactic,
  • un abler,
  • in vertebrate,
  • in efficient,
  • in-efficient,
  • in-competent,
  • null and void.
  •ineffectual (adjective)
  • in-effectual,
  • in effectual.
  •inefficacious (adjective)
  • in-efficacious,
  • in efficacious.
  •inert (adjective)
  • languid,
  • comatose,
  • immobile,
  • catatonic,
  • insensible,
  • languorous,
  • listless,
  • inert,
  • paralytic,
  • vegetative,
  • apathetic,
  • Reposing,
  • sluggish,
  • unreactive,
  • static.
  •insentient (adjective)
  • in sentient,
  • in-sentient.
  •insubstantial (adjective)
  • in-corporeal,
  • un sounder,
  • in-substantial,
  • meta-physical,
  • in firmer,
  • in corporeal,
  • in-firmer,
  • too little too late,
  • meta physical,
  • in-firmest,
  • un-sound,
  • un-soundest,
  • fly by night,
  • in tangible,
  • in substantial,
  • in firmest,
  • un-sounder,
  • un sound,
  • in-tangible,
  • in firm.
  •inutile (adjective)
  • in-utile,
  • in utile.
  •lackadaisical (adjective)
  • in-attentive,
  • dis-interested,
  • half hearted,
  • dis interested,
  • in curious,
  • in-curious,
  • laidback,
  • in attentive,
  • more daydreaming,
  • most energyless,
  • Half-hearted,
  • un concerned,
  • more energyless,
  • un-concerned,
  • most daydreaming.
  •latent (adjective)
  • in abeyance,
  • between the lines,
  • vestigial,
  • unrealized,
  • suspended,
  • implied.
  •lazy (adjective)
  • more slowmoving,
  • slow moving,
  • most slow moving,
  • more unindustrious,
  • more slow moving,
  • un-industrious,
  • more unpersevering,
  • in different,
  • asleep the job,
  • un energetic,
  • more unenergetic,
  • more slow-moving,
  • neglectful,
  • unindustrious,
  • laggard,
  • most dallying,
  • un-ready,
  • snooziest,
  • more procrastinating,
  • snoozier,
  • most laggard,
  • slowmoving,
  • most unindustrious,
  • most unenergetic,
  • un ready,
  • most procrastinating,
  • out it,
  • most unpersevering,
  • asleep job,
  • un industrious,
  • in-different,
  • most slowmoving,
  • more unready,
  • most slow-moving,
  • unpersevering,
  • most unready,
  • un-persevering,
  • more dallying,
  • more laggard,
  • un persevering,
  • un-energetic.
  •lethargic (adjective)
  • more nebbish,
  • hebetudinous,
  • more sleepyhead,
  • most sleepyhead,
  • wimpy,
  • wimpiest,
  • stretchy,
  • having spring fever,
  • sleepyhead,
  • most nebbish,
  • stretchier,
  • stretchiest.
  •misspent (adjective)
  • mis-applied,
  • more misapplied,
  • down drain,
  • most squandered,
  • mis-spent,
  • most misapplied,
  • mis applied,
  • mis spent,
  • more squandered,
  • Misapplied.
  •motionless (adjective)
  • sleeping,
  • quiet,
  • Resting,
  • calm,
  • tranquil,
  • stock-still,
  • fixed,
  • becalmed,
  • standing.
  •nugatory (adjective)
  • in-valid,
  • in valid.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • unfounded,
  • fruitless,
  • azoic,
  • to no avail,
  • inanimate,
  • not in use,
  • otiose,
  • latent,
  • down and out,
  • vacant,
  • out of work,
  • Gainless,
  • neb,
  • deskbound,
  • inefficacious,
  • lazy,
  • unprofitable,
  • inactive,
  • on layoff,
  • in vain,
  • nugatory,
  • insentient,
  • defeasible,
  • leisured,
  • tongue in cheek,
  • perambulatory,
  • vagabond,
  • futile,
  • flipper,
  • unenergetic,
  • at rest,
  • at liberty,
  • slowgoing,
  • no avail,
  • no go,
  • energyless,
  • slumbering,
  • useless,
  • exanimate,
  • nonvegetable,
  • groundless,
  • rootless,
  • sophistical,
  • unlived in,
  • without contents,
  • unoccupied,
  • not use,
  • specious,
  • without gainful employment,
  • brand-,
  • laid back,
  • asleep on the job,
  • vain,
  • thrown away,
  • loafing,
  • unavailing,
  • asleep on job,
  • underemployed,
  • slow-moving,
  • insubstantial,
  • spinning one's wheels,
  • unprolific,
  • desker,
  • unseeded,
  • to let,
  • on a treadmill,
  • apparently right,
  • untapped,
  • mint condition,
  • not effective,
  • shiftless,
  • closed down,
  • slothful,
  • itinerate,
  • to no effect,
  • emptyheaded,
  • stagnant,
  • free,
  • unplowed,
  • anticlimactic,
  • out of it,
  • frivolous,
  • unexpressive,
  • not serious,
  • slack,
  • untenanted,
  • no way,
  • snoozy,
  • unplanted,
  • no dice,
  • Resultless,
  • Workless,
  • save one's breath,
  • passive,
  • Drony,
  • sedentary,
  • spring fever,
  • slow,
  • de-activated,
  • torpid,
  • nonanimal,
  • lackadaisical,
  • no purpose,
  • unemployed,
  • desk-bound,
  • untilled,
  • to no purpose,
  • forceless,
  • no effect,
  • unapplied,
  • Unexercised,
  • Tenantless,
  • on treadmill,
  • no big deal,
  • lethargic,
  • casuistic,
  • unready,
  • out the window.
  •otiose (adjective)
  • sur plussest,
  • sur plusser,
  • sur-plusser,
  • sur-plussest.
  •out of work (adjective)
  • out of job,
  • out of a job.
  •passive (adjective)
  • nonresistant,
  • non-violent,
  • walking through it,
  • acquiescent,
  • complaisant,
  • placid,
  • going through motions,
  • unassertive,
  • unresisting,
  • yielding,
  • non-resistant,
  • poker-faced,
  • hands off,
  • submissive.
  •quiescent (adjective)
  • most slumbering,
  • de activated,
  • most deactivated,
  • more deactivated,
  • more slumbering.
  •sedentary (adjective)
  • more deskbound,
  • desk bound,
  • more desk-bound,
  • most deskbound,
  • deskest,
  • most desk bound,
  • most desk-bound,
  • more desk bound.
  •shallow (adjective)
  • shallower,
  • uncritical.
  •shiftless (adjective)
  • directionless.
  •slack (adjective)
  • easy going,
  • behindhand,
  • easy-going,
  • not busy.
  •slow (adjective)
  • slowest.
  •slow-footed (adjective)
  • slowfooted,
  • slow footed.
  •slow-going (adjective)
  • slow going.
  •slow-paced (adjective)
  • slowpaced,
  • slow paced.
  •specious (adjective)
  • most beguiling,
  • most casuistic,
  • un truest,
  • more casuistic,
  • most sophistical,
  • more sophistical,
  • in correct,
  • in accurate,
  • un-truest,
  • un-truer,
  • un truer.
  •torpid (adjective)
  • be-numbed,
  • be numbed.
  •trifling (adjective)
  • in considerable,
  • no big thing,
  • in-considerable,
  • in-consequential,
  • in consequential,
  • forget it.
  •unavailing (adjective)
  • un-availing,
  • un availing.
  •unemployed (adjective)
  • most unexercised,
  • un-employed,
  • on shelf,
  • un exercised,
  • more workless,
  • more unexercised,
  • most workless,
  • more unapplied,
  • un employed,
  • on bench,
  • un-exercised,
  • under-employed,
  • more underemployed,
  • most underemployed,
  • most unapplied,
  • most leisured,
  • under employed,
  • un-applied,
  • un applied,
  • more leisured.
  •unfounded (adjective)
  • off-base,
  • mendacious,
  • unproven,
  • without foundation.
  •unoccupied (adjective)
  • un-occupied,
  • un occupied.
  •unprofitable (adjective)
  • frustaneous,
  • unlucrative,
  • unremunerative.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un-usable,
  • un usable.
  •unused (adjective)
  • re maining,
  • most brand,
  • un accustomed,
  • un used,
  • more brand-,
  • un-used,
  • more brand,
  • most brand-,
  • brand new,
  • un familiar,
  • un-accustomed,
  • un-familiar.
  •useless (adjective)
  • Unpurposed,
  • unfunctional,
  • non-functional,
  • unusuable,
  • no good,
  • counter-productive,
  • scrapper,
  • nonfunctional,
  • of no use.
  •vacant (adjective)
  • most untaken,
  • Untaken,
  • more tenantless,
  • most tenantless,
  • un-tenanted,
  • un-filled,
  • un filled,
  • more untaken,
  • un taken,
  • un tenanted,
  • more untenanted,
  • un-expressive,
  • more unexpressive,
  • most untenanted,
  • un-taken,
  • un expressive,
  • most unexpressive.
  •vagabond (adjective)
  • 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.
  •vain (adjective)
  • Shucker,
  • not a prayer,
  • going nowhere,
  • no-win,
  • time-wasting,
  • unnotable,
  • in vicious circle.
  •virgin/virginal (adjective)
  • 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.

  •
  • perfunctory,
  • careless,
  • complacent,
  • like a bull in a china shop,
  • casual,
  • remiss,
  • slipshod,
  • complacency.
  •
  • inefficient,
  • action,
  • ineffective,
  • worthless,
  • defective,
  • pathetic,
  • purposeless,
  • faulty.
  •
  • sluggard,
  • industrious.
  •
  • at full stretch,
  • full.
  •
  • true,
  • half-assed,
  • supine.
  •baseless (noun)
  • baseless.
  •bone-idle (noun)
  • bone-idle.
  •bone-lazy (noun)
  • bone-lazy.
  •empty (noun)
  • rambling,
  • trivial,
  • pointless.
  •faineant (noun)
  • faineant.
  •idle (noun)
  • laze,
  • goldbricking,
  • jobless,
  • work-shy,
  • indolent,
  • leisure,
  • slug,
  • irresponsible.

• v.

  •contact (verb)
  • tick over.
  •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.
  •dally (verb)
  • lollygagged,
  • boondoggling,
  • fools with,
  • whiling away,
  • fooled with,
  • whiled away,
  • whiles away,
  • fooling with.
  •dawdle (verb)
  • 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.
  •fritter (verb)
  • 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.
  •immobilize (verb)
  • ties hands,
  • ties ones hands,
  • tying hands,
  • re-strained,
  • tied one's hands,
  • tied one hands,
  • tie hands,
  • entrammeling,
  • brought a screeching halt,
  • tying one's hands,
  • brings a screeching halt,
  • brings to screeching halt,
  • entrammeled,
  • re strain,
  • bring screeching halt,
  • re strained,
  • re-straining,
  • ties one hands,
  • re-strains,
  • tie one hands,
  • bringing a screeching halt,
  • bringing to screeching halt,
  • re strict,
  • tying one hands,
  • tie ones hands,
  • re strains,
  • brings screeching halt,
  • tied ones hands,
  • hog tie,
  • bringing to a screeching halt,
  • re-strict,
  • tying ones hands,
  • bringing screeching halt,
  • brings to a screeching halt,
  • brought to a screeching halt,
  • bring a screeching halt,
  • re straining,
  • tied hands,
  • brought to screeching halt,
  • brought screeching halt,
  • re-strain,
  • ties one's hands,
  • entrammels.
  •lag (verb)
  • dragging ones feet,
  • inched along,
  • de creasing,
  • drags one's feet,
  • de-creases,
  • losing strength,
  • dragging one feet,
  • drags ones feet,
  • wert behind,
  • drag ones feet,
  • de-creasing,
  • are behind,
  • am behind,
  • de-crease,
  • slows up,
  • dragging feet,
  • dragged feet,
  • dragged one's feet,
  • art behind,
  • inches along,
  • inching along,
  • slowing up,
  • drag one feet,
  • de creases,
  • loses strength,
  • wast behind,
  • drags one feet,
  • is behind,
  • dragged ones feet,
  • were behind,
  • de-creased,
  • lost strength,
  • was behind,
  • dragged one feet,
  • dragging one's feet,
  • de creased,
  • drags feet,
  • de crease.
  •linger (verb)
  • stuck around,
  • art tardy,
  • takes time,
  • art dilatory,
  • re mained,
  • wert dilatory,
  • sticked around,
  • art long,
  • being dilatory,
  • taking one time,
  • re mains,
  • wert long,
  • were long,
  • am tardy,
  • re main,
  • takes one time,
  • waiting around,
  • sticking around,
  • wast dilatory,
  • wast tardy,
  • re-main,
  • being tardy,
  • taking time,
  • waits around,
  • takes ones time,
  • take ones time,
  • took one's time,
  • taking ones time,
  • take one time,
  • waited around,
  • took time,
  • are long,
  • is long,
  • sticks around,
  • am long,
  • being long,
  • was dilatory,
  • was long,
  • is dilatory,
  • took one time,
  • is tardy,
  • wert tardy,
  • takes one's time,
  • re-mains,
  • were tardy,
  • am dilatory,
  • took ones time,
  • wast long,
  • are tardy,
  • are dilatory,
  • was tardy,
  • were dilatory.
  •loaf (verb)
  • not lift fingering,
  • were slothful,
  • wast unoccupied,
  • takes easy,
  • is unoccupied,
  • art unoccupied,
  • art slothful,
  • being slothful,
  • are indolent,
  • are inactive,
  • art indolent,
  • not lift fingers,
  • are unoccupied,
  • took easy,
  • art inactive,
  • not lift a fingers,
  • lounging around,
  • not lift fingered,
  • wast inactive,
  • passes time,
  • stood around,
  • not lift a fingered,
  • were unoccupied,
  • slows down,
  • stands around,
  • passed time,
  • were inactive,
  • was slothful,
  • lounged around,
  • am slothful,
  • was indolent,
  • take easy,
  • taking easy,
  • re lax,
  • took it easy,
  • wast slothful,
  • standing around,
  • am unoccupied,
  • wert inactive,
  • are slothful,
  • is inactive,
  • wast indolent,
  • lounges around,
  • whiles away hours,
  • not lift finger,
  • were indolent,
  • not lift a fingering,
  • being indolent,
  • whiled away hours,
  • slowing down,
  • whiling away hours,
  • was unoccupied,
  • is indolent,
  • wert indolent,
  • wert slothful,
  • wert unoccupied,
  • is slothful,
  • was inactive,
  • re-lax,
  • passing time.
  •loiter (verb)
  • de lays,
  • de lay,
  • de-lay,
  • de-lays.
  •loll (verb)
  • hung loose,
  • re-cline,
  • hanged loose,
  • hangs loose,
  • re-clines,
  • re cline,
  • re clines.
  •lounge (verb)
  • re posed,
  • re pose,
  • re-pose,
  • re-posed.
  •mope (verb)
  • re pines,
  • eating heart out,
  • is gloomy,
  • is a funk,
  • art in a funk,
  • be down in mouth,
  • wore long face,
  • art in funk,
  • am down in mouth,
  • eats one's heart out,
  • pining away,
  • pined away,
  • am down mouth,
  • eating ones heart out,
  • be funk,
  • were down in the mouth,
  • wert in a funk,
  • are in funk,
  • were apathetic,
  • was down the mouth,
  • wear long face,
  • are gloomy,
  • ate ones heart out,
  • pines away,
  • being a funk,
  • wears long face,
  • re pined,
  • being apathetic,
  • stews over,
  • loses heart,
  • re-pining,
  • eat ones heart out,
  • wast down the mouth,
  • was in funk,
  • eating one's heart out,
  • is down in the mouth,
  • wert apathetic,
  • is in funk,
  • were down in mouth,
  • was apathetic,
  • wert down in mouth,
  • was in a funk,
  • art gloomy,
  • wast down in the mouth,
  • were in a funk,
  • were down the mouth,
  • was down mouth,
  • was down in the mouth,
  • being down in the mouth,
  • eat one heart out,
  • wast a funk,
  • am a funk,
  • are apathetic,
  • is down in mouth,
  • is down the mouth,
  • wore a long face,
  • eats one heart out,
  • is in a funk,
  • is funk,
  • am down the mouth,
  • stewing over,
  • wast apathetic,
  • being down in mouth,
  • were a funk,
  • be down mouth,
  • wears a long face,
  • wearing a long face,
  • are in a funk,
  • art funk,
  • ate one heart out,
  • eats heart out,
  • be down the mouth,
  • is down mouth,
  • being down the mouth,
  • wast gloomy,
  • lost heart,
  • are down in the mouth,
  • ate heart out,
  • eating one heart out,
  • am down in the mouth,
  • wert a funk,
  • be a funk,
  • wast down in mouth,
  • art a funk,
  • wert in funk,
  • be in funk,
  • were down mouth,
  • was funk,
  • were funk,
  • art apathetic,
  • wearing long face,
  • being gloomy,
  • are a funk,
  • sweated over,
  • re pine,
  • losing heart,
  • being in funk,
  • was down in mouth,
  • wert down the mouth,
  • re-pines,
  • were gloomy,
  • are down the mouth,
  • wert down mouth,
  • wast down mouth,
  • are funk,
  • were in funk,
  • being down mouth,
  • am apathetic,
  • are down mouth,
  • ate one's heart out,
  • being in a funk,
  • eats ones heart out,
  • was a funk,
  • was gloomy,
  • wert funk,
  • wast in funk,
  • wast funk,
  • wast in a funk,
  • re-pined,
  • am in a funk,
  • wert gloomy,
  • am gloomy,
  • sweating over,
  • being funk,
  • re-pine,
  • stewed over,
  • sweats over,
  • are down in mouth,
  • wert down in the mouth,
  • is apathetic.
  •poke (verb)
  • schlepping along,
  • schlepps along,
  • schlepped along.
  •rest (verb)
  • 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.
  •slack/slacken (verb)
  • 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.
  •spend (verb)
  • 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.
  •stagnate (verb)
  • immobilize,
  • stop,
  • hibernate.
  •trifle (verb)
  • 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.
  •vegetate (verb)
  • goes to pot,
  • art inert,
  • being inert,
  • are inert,
  • goes pot,
  • going pot,
  • is inert,
  • go pot,
  • was inert,
  • went to pot,
  • going to pot,
  • were inert,
  • wast inert,
  • wert inert,
  • went pot.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • off-duty,
  • uptime,
  • wandering,
  • dilatory,
  • disuse,
  • disused,
  • splutter,
  • off-season,
  • sparing,
  • malfunction,
  • mesh,
  • off-peak,
  • subdued,
  • goldbrick.
  •
  • do-nothing,
  • bottomless,
  • idly,
  • misfire,
  • backfire,
  • kick over,
  • available,
  • cycle,
  • availability,
  • inoperative,
  • shallow,
  • struck.
  •
  • devoted,
  • closed,
  • sputter,
  • tardy,
  • shirk,
  • rev,
  • burn up,
  • bum,
  • grind.
  •
  • goof,
  • ping,
  • engagement,
  • fire,
  • turn over,
  • mode,
  • performance.
  •
  • flood,
  • pickup,
  • knock,
  • hollow,
  • empty,
  • economical.
  •
  • stall,
  • warm up,
  • economy.
  •
  • roll.
  •
  • sense,
  • jump.
  •
  • power,
  • talk,
  • miss.
  •
  • go.
  •
  • take.
  •dabble
  • 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.
  •discouraging
  • hopeless.
  •fool around
  • Larking,
  • fooling around,
  • Larked.
  •fritter
  • be wasteful with,
  • frivoling,
  • cast away,
  • frivol,
  • spend like water,
  • casting away,
  • diddle away.
  •idle
  • fallow.
  •lazy
  • truant.
  •Other relevant words:
  • go to pot,
  • be behind,
  • lollygagging,
  • get no place fast,
  • slow up,
  • be slothful,
  • hang loose,
  • lock up,
  • sit on one's butt,
  • featherbed,
  • mope,
  • stick around,
  • sit around,
  • warm a chair,
  • lounge,
  • piddle,
  • Inched,
  • Bumming,
  • dawdle,
  • not lift a finger,
  • be gloomy,
  • Bummed,
  • featherbeds,
  • grumped,
  • slackens,
  • be tardy,
  • bring to screeching halt,
  • Loitered,
  • featherbedding,
  • locked up,
  • loiter,
  • linger,
  • eat heart out,
  • lazies,
  • put in,
  • Sauntered,
  • stew over,
  • boondoggle,
  • repine,
  • rest,
  • let pass,
  • schlepp along,
  • Inching,
  • be unoccupied,
  • be inactive,
  • locking up,
  • laxed,
  • dabble,
  • dally,
  • hang out,
  • twiddle thumbs,
  • Strolled,
  • lag,
  • slowed down,
  • lollygag,
  • drag one's feet,
  • lie down on job,
  • tooled,
  • be down in the mouth,
  • loaf,
  • boondoggles,
  • shlep along,
  • fool with,
  • put off,
  • poke,
  • be in a funk,
  • dillydally,
  • hogtie,
  • loll,
  • lollygags,
  • lay back,
  • Regretted,
  • inch along,
  • be inert,
  • Piddled,
  • lose heart,
  • lounge around,
  • goofing off,
  • putting in,
  • diddle-daddle,
  • hanging loose,
  • vegetate,
  • boondoggled,
  • being behind,
  • being inactive,
  • Vegetated,
  • stand around,
  • wait around,
  • pass time,
  • grumping,
  • laxing,
  • fritter,
  • piddles,
  • eat one's heart out,
  • pine away,
  • fool around,
  • puts in,
  • Trailed,
  • Hesitated,
  • tooling,
  • Jellying,
  • being unoccupied,
  • be dilatory,
  • spend,
  • be indolent,
  • Entrammel,
  • jellied,
  • bring to a screeching halt,
  • drag feet,
  • Limped,
  • featherbedded,
  • moon,
  • taking it easy,
  • tie one's hands,
  • take time,
  • goof off,
  • takes it easy,
  • be long,
  • scrounge around,
  • jerk off,
  • trifle,
  • sweat over,
  • be apathetic,
  • take one's time,
  • take it easy,
  • knock around,
  • bum around,
  • wear a long face,
  • slackening,
  • slow down,
  • recline,
  • lose strength,
  • stagnate,
  • taking one's time,
  • slowed up,
  • laxes,
  • Slackened,
  • while away,
  • while away hours.
  •rest
  • unbent,
  • easing off,
  • lying down,
  • Drowsed,
  • take ten,
  • take time out,
  • Slumbered,
  • lie down,
  • ease up,
  • put feet up,
  • unlax,
  • unbend,
  • drowsing,
  • unbended,
  • drowse,
  • sit down,
  • taking a break,
  • lies down,
  • take five,
  • lay by,
  • unbends,
  • lie still,
  • be at ease,
  • take a nap,
  • take a break,
  • compose oneself,
  • eased up,
  • be comfortable,
  • ease off,
  • refresh oneself,
  • slack off,
  • slacking off,
  • winding down,
  • wind down,
  • lay down,
  • drowses,
  • takes a nap,
  • stretch out,
  • stretched out,
  • sat down,
  • take life easy.
  •stagnate
  • goes to seed,
  • constipate,
  • go to seed,
  • standing still,
  • constipating,
  • not move,
  • not moved,
  • constipates.
  •trifle
  • potters,
  • played with,
  • used up,
  • Wantoned,
  • led on,
  • mess with,
  • futz around,
  • Pottering,
  • Trifled,
  • lead on,
  • wink at,
  • amuse oneself,
  • leads on,
  • Pottered,
  • monkey with,
  • Wantoning,
  • indulge in,
  • be insincere,
  • using up.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • uneffective,
  • unmoved,
  • delay,
  • slender,
  • abandoned,
  • standpat,
  • wasted,
  • gone,
  • ridiculous,
  • fatuous,
  • drag,
  • cheap,
  • delusion,
  • irrelevant,
  • inadequate,
  • ne'er-do-well,
  • unjustified,
  • flimsy,
  • cancan,
  • have leisure,
  • decay,
  • punning,
  • larva,
  • catchpenny,
  • poking,
  • hobble,
  • unambitious,
  • dilly-dally,
  • inch,
  • tie up,
  • impracticable,
  • Fribbling,
  • barren,
  • contemplative,
  • unfilled,
  • lying,
  • improper,
  • semiretired,
  • loll around,
  • abstemious,
  • deteriorate,
  • angry,
  • wild,
  • doing nothing,
  • dream,
  • acrostic,
  • lax,
  • moderate,
  • fantasia,
  • not budge,
  • on holiday,
  • ungrounded,
  • unserviceable,
  • Ambling,
  • ill-judged,
  • uncultivated,
  • out of commission,
  • moon around,
  • creeping,
  • heavy,
  • untenable,
  • dispassionate,
  • raging,
  • limping,
  • wishy-washy,
  • clear,
  • slow-paced,
  • maggot,
  • vacuous,
  • poky,
  • inconstant,
  • putter,
  • crawling,
  • lightheaded,
  • lie by,
  • nimble,
  • Quietistic,
  • barbaric,
  • rusty,
  • vapid,
  • fool away,
  • wanton,
  • on the bench,
  • insignificant,
  • coast,
  • uncaring,
  • reluctant,
  • promiscuous,
  • straggle,
  • superficial,
  • aside,
  • leisurely,
  • muck about,
  • smatter,
  • inexpedient,
  • frig around,
  • tactics,
  • spoil,
  • idler,
  • valueless,
  • indefensible,
  • cautious,
  • laissez faire,
  • unwarrantable,
  • Pococurante,
  • wait and see,
  • reserve,
  • mooch,
  • counterproductive,
  • not burdensome,
  • lumpish,
  • unreasonable,
  • mirage,
  • lark about,
  • invalid,
  • serene,
  • bootless,
  • Loitering,
  • tortoiselike,
  • sit back,
  • ill-devised,
  • barbarian,
  • Moveless,
  • laid-back,
  • stupid,
  • crazy,
  • between jobs,
  • illusion,
  • lightsome,
  • low-cal,
  • inconsequential,
  • asinine,
  • peaceful,
  • brogue,
  • lumpen,
  • collecting unemployment,
  • indolence,
  • saunter,
  • Lusk,
  • off work,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • toy,
  • silly,
  • absurd,
  • Dronish,
  • languish,
  • lymphatic,
  • impassive,
  • squandered,
  • while,
  • spare,
  • unhurried,
  • pacific,
  • walk,
  • underactive,
  • slumber,
  • gentle,
  • on the shelf,
  • shuffling,
  • nonsensical,
  • resistless,
  • unjustifiable,
  • fiddle away,
  • delinquent,
  • Fust,
  • sit,
  • totter,
  • revery,
  • waste,
  • laid-off,
  • unsuccessful,
  • tittle-tattle,
  • decline,
  • non-functioning,
  • idle away,
  • let fall,
  • without reason,
  • phlegmatic,
  • lumbering,
  • lie around,
  • Inoccupation,
  • fresh,
  • neutral,
  • not literal,
  • toddle,
  • spiritless,
  • inane,
  • nuzzle,
  • indifferent,
  • lie to,
  • Stagnating,
  • holiday,
  • Prittle-prattle,
  • dissipated,
  • unwise,
  • faltering,
  • lie about,
  • rot,
  • obsolete,
  • waft,
  • decompose,
  • tattle,
  • relaxed,
  • skin-deep,
  • trifling,
  • tactic,
  • Toddling,
  • wasteful,
  • smoulder,
  • redundant,
  • savage,
  • quibble,
  • potter,
  • skive,
  • not working,
  • forgetful,
  • unhelpful,
  • strikebound,
  • unimportant,
  • fool,
  • idleness,
  • leaden,
  • smolder,
  • impotent,
  • lethargy,
  • extinct,
  • Statuelike,
  • faint,
  • swooning,
  • paralysed,
  • abject,
  • gossip,
  • imperturbable,
  • of no avail,
  • phantasy,
  • dog it,
  • unreal,
  • Fingle-fangle,
  • ill-advised,
  • unconcerned,
  • quiescence,
  • sleep,
  • circumspect,
  • Trudging,
  • unenterprising,
  • informal,
  • sluttish,
  • extra,
  • unsustainable,
  • creep,
  • stand,
  • gathering dust,
  • surface,
  • warm-up,
  • farcical,
  • peddling,
  • risky,
  • sinecure,
  • void,
  • unanimated,
  • wile,
  • down,
  • out of operation,
  • hang about,
  • undue,
  • foot-dragging,
  • untouched,
  • be still,
  • drag along,
  • abeyance,
  • inertia,
  • unfruitful,
  • Sluggardize,
  • sit it out,
  • immobilized,
  • wakeful,
  • meditative,
  • puerile,
  • fill,
  • ineffectual,
  • Hobbling,
  • coquet,
  • waddle,
  • laziness,
  • unsupportable,
  • inattentive,
  • impractical,
  • dotty,
  • move slowly,
  • anagram,
  • fritter away time,
  • easygoing,
  • Dolce Far Niente,
  • senseless,
  • Fribble,
  • discharged,
  • use up,
  • desire,
  • liberal,
  • null,
  • monkey,
  • finical,
  • airy,
  • extravagant,
  • windy,
  • bugger about,
  • chat,
  • chitchat,
  • halting,
  • open,
  • not moving,
  • fritter away,
  • paralyzed,
  • Pudder,
  • unemployable,
  • lie dormant,
  • small talk,
  • escaped,
  • flagging,
  • effete,
  • Procrastinating,
  • on the beach,
  • cool,
  • ill-founded,
  • reverie,
  • cackle,
  • tripping,
  • Unpractical,
  • uninterested,
  • mosey,
  • vacation,
  • short,
  • lallygag,
  • claudicate,
  • occupy,
  • Unphilosophical,
  • retired,
  • pun,
  • fantasy,
  • numb,
  • dogtrot,
  • fidget,
  • dragging,
  • stand still,
  • defunct,
  • uninspired,
  • double acrostic,
  • friable,
  • deadened,
  • trifle away,
  • lite,
  • unnecessary,
  • slight,
  • soulless,
  • off,
  • irrational,
  • waste time,
  • Fatuitous,
  • peddle,
  • drained,
  • vegetable,
  • swig,
  • unencumbered,
  • tarry,
  • stroll,
  • snaillike,
  • traipse,
  • staggering,
  • Babblement,
  • Claudicant,
  • unproductive,
  • moulder,
  • unsubstantial,
  • moribund,
  • Finikin,
  • kid around,
  • putter around,
  • unaccented,
  • drag out,
  • crawl,
  • dusty,
  • lie fallow,
  • aimless,
  • idling,
  • ambiguity,
  • asunder,
  • causerie,
  • keep quiet,
  • hypocritical,
  • unshaken,
  • unenforceable,
  • abeyant,
  • weak,
  • sloth,
  • riddle,
  • fiddle,
  • thin,
  • stagger along,
  • non-aggressive,
  • uninvolved,
  • mess about,
  • petty,
  • injudicious,
  • tinker,
  • military strategy,
  • Disengaged,
  • conundrum,
  • unclouded,
  • diddle,
  • hang around,
  • bum about,
  • tottering,
  • Sauntering,
  • pause,
  • between assignments,
  • hang fire,
  • Misspent,
  • poke along,
  • loafer,
  • namby-pamby,
  • fleet,
  • idiotic,
  • escapism,
  • table talk,
  • be a sideliner,
  • Strolling,
  • deserted,
  • goof around,
  • footle,
  • stuporous,
  • slow-going,
  • at loose ends,
  • easy,
  • foolish,
  • wander,
  • unusable,
  • dull,
  • play with,
  • gradual,
  • mitigate,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • kill,
  • fallen,
  • worm along,
  • prodigal,
  • asleep,
  • twiddle,
  • procrastinate,
  • play,
  • tentative,
  • mark time,
  • inaction,
  • sleeveless,
  • degenerate,
  • pass,
  • drift,
  • deliberate,
  • unsatisfying,
  • kaput,
  • inconsistent,
  • workshy,
  • abortive,
  • on the dole,
  • wait,
  • Lethargical,
  • play around,
  • hang,
  • limp,
  • consume,
  • not binding,
  • Arse About,
  • inutile,
  • trite,
  • neuter,
  • be lazy,
  • unutilized,
  • Unsustained,
  • niggling,
  • amble,
  • unmotivated,
  • at anchor,
  • flirt,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • unaffected,
  • unperturbed,
  • unexploited,
  • frothy,
  • relax,
  • negligent,
  • slow-footed,
  • rust,
  • worm,
  • powerless,
  • muck,
  • jeu de mots,
  • teatable talk,
  • at a standstill,
  • quietist,
  • horse around,
  • ease,
  • laze away,
  • insupportable,
  • piddling,
  • word-play,
  • inactivity,
  • nonliving,
  • unrewarding,
  • between engagements,
  • Hobbled,
  • slouch,
  • clean,
  • Waddling,
  • unresponsive,
  • babble,
  • drone,
  • mess around,
  • repose,
  • play upon words,
  • without basis.

Paraphrases for Idle:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    idling, inactive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    idling, inactive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    idling, inactive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    unutilized, unused, futile, laid-up, unexploited, inert, passive, pointless, useless, vain, hollow, unencumbered, lazy, unemployed, fruitless, unexpended, unproductive, meaningless, wait, silent, unnecessary.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    downtime.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    empty.
  • Proper noun, singular
    inactivity.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inactivity.
  • Verb, base form
    inactive.

Antonyms for Idle:

• adj.

  • all
    busy.
  • worthless, ineffective
    important, used, diligent, Hustling, productive, worthwhile, effective, employed, working, active.
  • 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.

• v.

  • contact
    run.

Homophones for Idle:

• idyll, idol.

Hyponym for Idle:

• n.

  • state
    operation.