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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91. Over ten per cent of the workforce is now idle.
92. Contact with realities indisposed him to any more idle speculations.
93. He didn't want to waste valuable time in idle gossip.
94. In contrast to similar services in France and Germany, Intercity rolling stock is very rarely idle.
95. Let no one accuse us of idle posturing.
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96. Grant cuts the engine right back to idle.
97. She's a great one for idle gossip though.
98. Its airplane manufacturing plants largely are idle.
99. Cars and pickups and vans idle around him.
100. Painting is a favorite hobby of the idle rich.
101. The factory has been idle since May.
102. Perhaps it was nothing more than idle curiosity.
103. Most of them are idle, work-shy, good-for-nothing.
104. People simply hold the additional money as idle balances.
105. The devil makes work for idle hands. 30.
106. But he had no time for idle speculation.
107. Most of the factory stood idle during the strike.
108. Believe me, this is not idle chatter.
109. GM announced it would idle four assembly plants.
110. Idle hands and heads breed mischief.
111. Inactivity turns desires into idle fantasies.
112. It's not just idle curiosity.
113. Hundreds of workers sat idle on the factory floor waiting for the assembly line to start again.
114. The projected increases come largely because farmers will no longer have to idle acres in order to participate in federal programs.
115. He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass.
116. The world divided into the idle rich and the labouring poor.
117. Due to the strike, many of GM's factories stood idle.
118. I have sometimes whiled away idle moments in speculating how far one could elaborate this figure before the reader became suspicious.
119. Why is millions of pounds worth of state-of-the-art equipment lying idle?
120. It may well be argued that any attempt at locating sUch a remote people is itself an idle one.
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.