Idle
[adj] not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
[adj] not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"
[adj] not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
[adj] not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
[adj] lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
[adj] silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"
[adj] without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
[v] run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling"
[v] be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
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Synonyms
at liberty(p), baseless, bone-idle, bone-lazy, dead, faineant, frivolous, goldbricking(a), groundless, inactive, indolent, irresponsible, jobless, lackadaisical, laze, lazy, leisure(a), leisured, light, loose, otiose, out of work, slothful, slug, stagnate
Related Terms
abortive, absurd, airy, amble, ambling, asinine, asleep, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, baseless, be a sideliner, be still, bootless, brogue, bum, bum around, catchpenny, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, cl