idle /īˈdl/

1. Unemployed
2. Disliking work, lazy
3. Not occupied
4. Not in use or operation
5. Useless
6. Unimportant
7. Unedifying
8. Vain
9. Baseless, without foundation
10. Trifling

1. To pass or spend in idleness
2. To make (an engine, etc) idle

1. To be idle or unoccupied
2. (of machinery) to run without doing work
3. (of an engine) to run slowly when disengaged from the transmission

iˈdlehood noun (archaic)

iˈdleness noun

iˈdler noun

1. A person who wastes time or is reluctant to work
2. An idle pulley or idle wheel

idˈlesse noun (poetic)

Idleness

iˈdly adverb

iˈdle-headˈed adjective

Foolish

idle money noun (economics)

That part of the total money supply that is neither being used to finance current transactions nor being lent out on the money market

idle pulley noun

A pulley which rotates freely and guides, or controls the tension of, a belt (also iˈdler)

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