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Adjective idle has 7 senses
- idle - not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
Antonyms: busy, at work, drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling, engaged, occupied, overbusy, tied up, up to
- baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted - without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
Antonym: supported (indirect, via unsupported)
Antonym: supported (indirect, via unsupported)
- idle, unused - not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"
Antonym: active (indirect, via inactive)
- idle, light - silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"
Antonym: serious (indirect, via frivolous)
- idle, loose - lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
Antonym: responsible (indirect, via irresponsible)
- dead, idle - not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
Antonym: profitable (indirect, via unprofitable)
- idle, jobless, out of work - not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
Antonym: employed (indirect, via unemployed)
Noun idler has 1 sense
- idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
--1 is a kind of nonworker
--1 has particulars: | | clock watcher; couch potato; dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, mope, lounger; dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer; daydreamer, woolgatherer; goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught; lazybones; lie-abed, slugabed; loon; slacker, shirker; sluggard, slug; spiv; sunbather; trifler; whittler |
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