Usually means: Least active or most unproductive.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. idlest: Merriam-Webster
  2. idlest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idlest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. idlest: Vocabulary.com
  5. idlest: Wordnik
  6. idlest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. idlest: Wiktionary
  8. Idlest, idlest: Dictionary.com
  9. idlest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. idlest: FreeDictionary.org
  11. idlest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. idlest: Legal dictionary

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  1. idlest: Encyclopedia

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  1. idlest: Idioms

(Note: See idle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (IDLE)

adjective:  (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
adjective:  Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
adjective:  Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
adjective:  Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
adjective:  Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
adjective:  (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
verb:  (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
verb:  (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
noun:  The state of idling, of being idle.
noun:  (mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
noun:  (gaming) An idle animation.
noun:  (gaming) An idle game.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A suburb in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1737).
noun:  A river, the River Idle in Nottinghamshire, England, which flows into the River Trent.
noun:  (programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated DeveLopment Environment.
noun:  (programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
noun:  (pathology) Acronym of indolent lesion of epithelial origin. [(pathology) a type of cancerous growth, which is malignant, but spreads slowly, and unlikely to be a serious issue within the lifetime of the victim]
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