Usually means: Not active, engaged, or busy.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word idle:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. idle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. idle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. idle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. idle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Idle, idle: Wordnik
  7. idle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. IDLE, Idle, idle: Wiktionary
  9. idle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. idle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. idle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Idle, idle: Dictionary.com
  13. idle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. idle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. IDLE (Python), IDLE, Idle (CPU), Idle (disambiguation), Idle (engine), Idle, The Idle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Idle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. idle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. idle: Rhymezone
  19. idle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. idle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Idle (car): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. idle: Free Dictionary
  23. idle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. idle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. idle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. idle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. idle: Glossary of research economics
  4. idle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. IDLE: Acronym Finder
  4. idle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Idle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See idled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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