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Word: idle (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
  • Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
  • Not turned to occupied.
  • obsolete Empty, vacant.
  • Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

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Verb:

  • intransitive Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick-over.
  • intransitive To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
  • transitive To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.

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