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▸ 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]
Similar:
lackadaisical,
otiose,
irresponsible,
jobless,
baseless,
groundless,
unprofitable,
unwarranted,
unemployed,
unfounded,
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Types:
daydreaming,
procrastinating,
lazing around,
loafing,
slacking,
vegetating,
dozing off,
resting,
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