Definition for Idle:

• Not employed; averse to labour; vain; useless; frivolous; unprofitable.

Synonyms for Idle:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • light,
  • dead,
  • loose,
  • unused.
  •free (adjective)
  • unengaged,
  • at leisure.
  •groundless (adjective)
  • unwarranted,
  • unsupported.
  •inactive (adjective)
  • lifeless,
  • unworking,
  • motionless,
  • stationary,
  • Snail-paced,
  • mothballed,
  • somnolent,
  • dormant,
  • sleepy,
  • quiescent,
  • still,
  • unmoving.
  •inert (adjective)
  • languid,
  • vegetative,
  • Reposing,
  • apathetic,
  • catatonic,
  • comatose,
  • sluggish,
  • listless,
  • paralytic,
  • inert,
  • insensible,
  • languorous,
  • static,
  • immobile.
  •lethargic (adjective)
  • hebetudinous.
  •motionless (adjective)
  • sleeping,
  • quiet,
  • Resting,
  • calm,
  • tranquil,
  • stock-still,
  • fixed,
  • becalmed,
  • standing.
  •passive (adjective)
  • yielding,
  • acquiescent,
  • submissive,
  • complaisant,
  • placid.

• n.

  •
  • remiss,
  • careless.
  •
  • inefficient,
  • ineffective,
  • purposeless,
  • worthless.
  •
  • sluggard.
  •
  • supine.
  •empty (noun)
  • rambling,
  • trivial,
  • pointless.
  •idle (noun)
  • indolent,
  • faineant,
  • irresponsible,
  • laze,
  • bone-lazy,
  • work-shy,
  • bone-idle,
  • goldbricking,
  • baseless,
  • jobless,
  • leisure,
  • slug.

• v.

  •contact (verb)
  • tick over.
  •stagnate (verb)
  • immobilize,
  • stop,
  • hibernate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • goldbrick,
  • dilatory,
  • off-season,
  • sparing.
  •
  • cycle,
  • idly,
  • available,
  • struck,
  • do-nothing,
  • shallow,
  • backfire,
  • bottomless,
  • inoperative,
  • availability.
  •
  • tardy,
  • bum,
  • shirk,
  • closed,
  • grind.
  •
  • performance,
  • goof.
  •
  • hollow,
  • knock,
  • empty.
  •
  • economy.
  •
  • roll.
  •
  • sense.
  •
  • miss.
  •
  • go.
  •
  • take.
  •dabble
  • monkey around,
  • fiddle with,
  • muck around,
  • toy with.
  •discouraging
  • hopeless.
  •fritter
  • diddle away,
  • frivol.
  •idle
  • fallow.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dissipated,
  • drained,
  • bum about,
  • deserted,
  • unambitious,
  • reluctant,
  • coquet,
  • drag along,
  • strikebound,
  • unhurried,
  • brogue,
  • impassive,
  • neuter,
  • wile,
  • inconsequential,
  • on the dole,
  • on the shelf,
  • fritter away,
  • putter,
  • Ambling,
  • lumpish,
  • inconsistent,
  • gradual,
  • desire,
  • unreasonable,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • retired,
  • laggard,
  • kaput,
  • muck about,
  • dogtrot,
  • ungrounded,
  • table talk,
  • rot,
  • ineffectual,
  • liberal,
  • word-play,
  • laid-back,
  • non-functioning,
  • abandoned,
  • hypocritical,
  • deteriorate,
  • contemplative,
  • trite,
  • cautious,
  • sleep,
  • mosey,
  • dotty,
  • spoil,
  • unperturbed,
  • uncultivated,
  • impotent,
  • unnecessary,
  • ease,
  • twiddle,
  • cancan,
  • worm along,
  • uninterested,
  • cackle,
  • creep,
  • dilly-dally,
  • idiotic,
  • impractical,
  • ill-advised,
  • swig,
  • off work,
  • catchpenny,
  • negligent,
  • moulder,
  • unjustified,
  • windy,
  • insupportable,
  • vacation,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • unusable,
  • indefensible,
  • unexploited,
  • limp,
  • paralysed,
  • moribund,
  • hang around,
  • cheap,
  • unserviceable,
  • piddling,
  • extra,
  • illusion,
  • lumpen,
  • inertia,
  • tactic,
  • untenable,
  • toddle,
  • drag out,
  • finical,
  • hang fire,
  • serene,
  • acrostic,
  • lightheaded,
  • ambiguity,
  • sleeveless,
  • easy,
  • crazy,
  • fatuous,
  • senseless,
  • smatter,
  • Fribbling,
  • uneffective,
  • lite,
  • coast,
  • ill-founded,
  • puerile,
  • creeping,
  • mitigate,
  • rust,
  • lie around,
  • Claudicant,
  • prodigal,
  • forgetful,
  • savage,
  • wasted,
  • void,
  • tortoiselike,
  • repose,
  • unresponsive,
  • numb,
  • Fust,
  • quibble,
  • Sauntering,
  • babble,
  • absurd,
  • niggling,
  • drift,
  • anagram,
  • wild,
  • unaffected,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • tie up,
  • mirage,
  • spare,
  • fritter away time,
  • slouch,
  • stand still,
  • wait,
  • punning,
  • gentle,
  • dispassionate,
  • abeyance,
  • not moving,
  • asleep,
  • delay,
  • silly,
  • Toddling,
  • bugger about,
  • squandered,
  • be still,
  • clean,
  • unproductive,
  • not budge,
  • limping,
  • bootless,
  • vapid,
  • snaillike,
  • phantasy,
  • stuporous,
  • frig around,
  • fool,
  • tentative,
  • wishy-washy,
  • Pococurante,
  • lie dormant,
  • gossip,
  • degenerate,
  • unclouded,
  • reverie,
  • Moveless,
  • counterproductive,
  • laziness,
  • relax,
  • Quietistic,
  • lie fallow,
  • airy,
  • gone,
  • wander,
  • frothy,
  • smoulder,
  • chitchat,
  • untouched,
  • defunct,
  • Sluggardize,
  • drag,
  • sluttish,
  • fiddle away,
  • uninvolved,
  • informal,
  • traipse,
  • totter,
  • paralyzed,
  • laissez faire,
  • decompose,
  • raging,
  • unmoved,
  • relaxed,
  • potter,
  • toy,
  • abject,
  • inexpedient,
  • asinine,
  • stand,
  • have leisure,
  • null and void,
  • friable,
  • not literal,
  • waste,
  • moderate,
  • poke along,
  • weak,
  • slow-going,
  • trifle away,
  • inadequate,
  • inattentive,
  • Statuelike,
  • Hobbled,
  • discharged,
  • lymphatic,
  • wakeful,
  • ne'er-do-well,
  • sit back,
  • unsustainable,
  • immobilized,
  • inaction,
  • aimless,
  • military strategy,
  • decline,
  • footle,
  • peddle,
  • Lusk,
  • abeyant,
  • unhelpful,
  • hang,
  • fidget,
  • holiday,
  • kill,
  • unconcerned,
  • injudicious,
  • foolish,
  • Arse About,
  • lax,
  • uninspired,
  • lie by,
  • loafer,
  • on the beach,
  • sloth,
  • Trudging,
  • Misspent,
  • wanton,
  • stupid,
  • Waddling,
  • unfruitful,
  • slow-footed,
  • cool,
  • aside,
  • diddle,
  • unreal,
  • imperturbable,
  • irrelevant,
  • unsuccessful,
  • unanimated,
  • irrational,
  • barbarian,
  • occupy,
  • dusty,
  • Finikin,
  • ridiculous,
  • Unsustained,
  • shuffling,
  • Prittle-prattle,
  • laze away,
  • moon around,
  • move slowly,
  • monkey,
  • valueless,
  • dog it,
  • barbaric,
  • neutral,
  • Fatuitous,
  • doing nothing,
  • walk,
  • unfilled,
  • unenforceable,
  • wasteful,
  • tattle,
  • Lethargical,
  • circumspect,
  • Fribble,
  • thin,
  • promiscuous,
  • flirt,
  • phlegmatic,
  • idle away,
  • kid around,
  • putter around,
  • sterile,
  • Strolling,
  • procrastinate,
  • pause,
  • tarry,
  • unimportant,
  • deadened,
  • tittle-tattle,
  • powerless,
  • escapism,
  • waste time,
  • quiescence,
  • workshy,
  • horse around,
  • worm,
  • unaccented,
  • slow-paced,
  • pun,
  • saunter,
  • mess about,
  • stagger along,
  • crawl,
  • lark about,
  • skin-deep,
  • dragging,
  • clear,
  • namby-pamby,
  • uncaring,
  • quietist,
  • foot-dragging,
  • skive,
  • non-aggressive,
  • escaped,
  • unencumbered,
  • Unpractical,
  • drone,
  • meditative,
  • laid-off,
  • unjustifiable,
  • tinker,
  • inconstant,
  • be lazy,
  • not binding,
  • play around,
  • double acrostic,
  • waddle,
  • maggot,
  • ill-judged,
  • inane,
  • wait and see,
  • insignificant,
  • redundant,
  • tripping,
  • on holiday,
  • play upon words,
  • obsolete,
  • use up,
  • keep quiet,
  • superficial,
  • unenterprising,
  • poking,
  • fleet,
  • idleness,
  • play with,
  • angry,
  • invalid,
  • down,
  • Dolce Far Niente,
  • underactive,
  • languish,
  • Fingle-fangle,
  • lie about,
  • asunder,
  • lallygag,
  • reserve,
  • fresh,
  • not working,
  • insufficient,
  • unsubstantial,
  • lightsome,
  • easygoing,
  • extravagant,
  • leisurely,
  • peaceful,
  • surface,
  • unmotivated,
  • consume,
  • fantasia,
  • delusion,
  • extinct,
  • profitless,
  • null,
  • slender,
  • play,
  • fantasy,
  • unshaken,
  • inutile,
  • unemployable,
  • hobble,
  • stroll,
  • hang about,
  • at loose ends,
  • Pudder,
  • straggle,
  • abortive,
  • let fall,
  • lethargy,
  • pass,
  • Procrastinating,
  • low-cal,
  • revery,
  • teatable talk,
  • sit,
  • slumber,
  • barren,
  • swooning,
  • fiddle,
  • sinecure,
  • mess around,
  • warm-up,
  • Babblement,
  • Stagnating,
  • unwise,
  • fallen,
  • without reason,
  • out of operation,
  • riddle,
  • open,
  • abstemious,
  • effete,
  • Unphilosophical,
  • semiretired,
  • impracticable,
  • inch,
  • nimble,
  • nuzzle,
  • dull,
  • short,
  • unwarrantable,
  • halting,
  • improper,
  • conundrum,
  • unsatisfying,
  • Loitering,
  • loll around,
  • rusty,
  • jeu de mots,
  • decay,
  • lie to,
  • Disengaged,
  • without basis,
  • leaden,
  • idler,
  • faint,
  • undue,
  • of no avail,
  • trifling,
  • gathering dust,
  • nonsensical,
  • mark time,
  • out of commission,
  • slight,
  • flagging,
  • Dronish,
  • on the bench,
  • causerie,
  • inactivity,
  • meaningless,
  • chat,
  • fill,
  • unutilized,
  • peddling,
  • dream,
  • collecting unemployment,
  • mooch,
  • while,
  • goof around,
  • off,
  • lying,
  • poky,
  • crawling,
  • muck,
  • idling,
  • unsupportable,
  • Hobbling,
  • pacific,
  • resistless,
  • smolder,
  • standpat,
  • soulless,
  • indifferent,
  • deliberate,
  • between jobs,
  • amble,
  • small talk,
  • petty,
  • Inoccupation,
  • unrewarding,
  • tottering,
  • heavy,
  • tactics,
  • larva,
  • at a standstill,
  • flimsy,
  • neglectful,
  • lumbering,
  • claudicate,
  • indolence,
  • faltering,
  • farcical,
  • sit it out,
  • vacuous,
  • delinquent,
  • vegetable,
  • not burdensome,
  • spiritless,
  • fool away,
  • insincere,
  • risky,
  • nonliving,
  • waft,
  • staggering.

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.