idlyadverb
uk/ˈaɪd.li/us/ˈaɪd.li/without any particular purpose:
I was just glancing idly through a magazine.
doing nothing:
She lay idly on the grass.
We cannot stand idly by while these people suffer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Goals and purposes
- affordance
- aim
- ambition
- aspiration
- avail
- cause 1
- dedicated
- deliverable
- end
- object
- objective
- order
- orientation
- point
- poodle
- poodle around (sth)
- prize
- purpose
- should
- utility
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