What is another word for idle?
1968 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈa͡ɪdə͡l], [ ˈaɪdəl], [ ˈaɪ_d_əl]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)
- inactive (adjective)
- inanimate (adjective)
- indolent (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inert (adjective)
- insentient (adjective)
- insubstantial (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- lackadaisical (adjective)
- latent (adjective)
- lazy (adjective)
- lethargic (adjective)
- misspent (adjective)
- motionless (adjective)
- nugatory (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)
- 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)
- baseless (noun)
- bone-idle (noun)
- bone-lazy (noun)
- empty (noun)
- faineant (noun)
- idle (noun)
- contact (verb)
- dabble (verb)
- dally (verb)
- dawdle (verb)
- fritter (verb)
- immobilize (verb)
- lag (verb)
- linger (verb)
- loaf (verb)
- loiter (verb)
- loll (verb)
- lounge (verb)
- mope (verb)
- poke (verb)
- rest (verb)
- slack/slacken (verb)
- spend (verb)
- stagnate (verb)
- trifle (verb)
- vegetate (verb)
- other synonyms
- dabble
- discouraging
- fool around
- fritter
- idle
- lazy
- rest
- stagnate
- trifle
- other relevant words
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- languid,
- comatose,
- immobile,
- catatonic,
- insensible,
- languorous,
- listless,
- inert,
- paralytic,
- vegetative,
- apathetic,
- Reposing,
- sluggish,
- unreactive,
- static.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more nebbish,
- hebetudinous,
- more sleepyhead,
- most sleepyhead,
- wimpy,
- wimpiest,
- stretchy,
- having spring fever,
- sleepyhead,
- most nebbish,
- stretchier,
- stretchiest.
- mis-applied,
- more misapplied,
- down drain,
- most squandered,
- mis-spent,
- most misapplied,
- mis applied,
- mis spent,
- more squandered,
- Misapplied.
- nonresistant,
- non-violent,
- walking through it,
- acquiescent,
- complaisant,
- placid,
- going through motions,
- unassertive,
- unresisting,
- yielding,
- non-resistant,
- poker-faced,
- hands off,
- submissive.
- 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.
- 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.
- re maining,
- most brand,
- un accustomed,
- un used,
- more brand-,
- un-used,
- more brand,
- most brand-,
- brand new,
- un familiar,
- un-accustomed,
- un-familiar.
- Unpurposed,
- unfunctional,
- non-functional,
- unusuable,
- no good,
- counter-productive,
- scrapper,
- nonfunctional,
- of no use.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- goes to seed,
- constipate,
- go to seed,
- standing still,
- constipating,
- not move,
- not moved,
- constipates.
- 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.
- 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:
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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
Homophones for Idle:
Hyponym for Idle:
n.
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state
operation.
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