Synonym: at leisure, futile, groundless, inactive, lazy, unfounded, unoccupied, unwarranted, useless, vain, worthless. Antonym: diligent, industrious. Similar words: sidle, rapidly, timidly, lucidly, languidly, handle, addle, middle. Meaning: ['aɪdl] n. the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling. v. 1. run disconnected or idle 2. be idle; exist in a changeless situation. adj. 1. not in action or at work 2. without a basis in reason or fact 3. not in active use 4. silly or trivial 5. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility 6. not yielding a return 7. not having a job.
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61. They idle away the hours watching TV.
62. The factory machines lay idle during the workers' strike.
63. Half their machines are lying idle.
64. She's too fond of idle gossip.
65. You shouldn't listen to idle gossip.
66. If you have an idle moment,(http://sentencedict.com/idle.html) call me.
67. I don't like all this idle gossip.
68. The earth-moving trucks and cement mixers lay idle.
69. That boy is really idle.
70. He never does any exercise - he's bone idle.
71. She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers.'The devil makes work for idle hands,'she would say.
72. 'Making knowledge work' is the university's phrase, and it is no idle boast .
73. The workers have been idle for the last six months.
74. Her claim that she could beat us all was clearly no idle / empty boast .
75. How much trouble in this life is caused by idle talk!
76. Ragweed pioneers idle fields.
77. His words were just idle threats; You don't have to take them too seriously.
78. Mr. Lorry had been idle a lo and had just poured out his last glassful of wine complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.
79. He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.
80. An idle person will never find or understand real happiness.
81. It's crazy to have £7000 sitting idle in the bank.
82. It was only from idle curiosity that she went into the barn.
83. He's just bone idle.
84. Mike doesn't study at all. Instead, he sits idle all day.
85. Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.
86. The whole team stood idle , waiting for the mechanic.
87. It would be idle to deny that great progress was made.
88. She was not a woman to make idle threats .
89. The kids took no notice of the teacher's idle threats.
90. We spent many idle hours just sitting in the sun.
More similar words: sidle, rapidly, timidly, lucidly, languidly, handle, addle, middle, kindle, meddle, peddle, puddle, hurdle, needle, bundle, swindle, endless, handlebar, befuddle, a bundle of, befuddled, regardless, huddle together, middle-class, irregardless, regardless of, middle ground.