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.
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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121. And having lost our zeal for the idle etchings of some bored buckaroo, we slink off into the shade.
122. If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. Samuel Johnson 
123. The area is dependent on fishing and farming, yet the fishing boats lie idle in the sand.
124. Almost half the skilled workers in this country are now idle.
125. Jess shivered, looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity.sentencedict.com
126. I knew it was just idle threats, but a lot wouldn't have - they'd have been distraught.
127. Sovereigns are born for an active life, and not for an idle or contemplative existence.
128. Wake up that idle young brother of yours and tell him it's time for school!
129. Scientology is a cereal-box religion, and reading Ron is an idle diversion that quickly becomes annoying.
130. Is it simply a transfer from the customer's bank account to building society account of money that was lying idle?
131. The small fleet of Amantani boats with their distinctive green plumb-line idle there.
132. Market loans reduce the volume of idle cash held by banks.
133. It is not altogether idle to speculate about what seems to be driving the private ambivalence and the public controversy.
134. Environment spokesman Jack Straw said ￡5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets.
135. Under the Conservation Reserve Program, farmers are guaranteed rental payments to idle sensitive crop land.
136. He was one of Ibn Fayoud's colts and apparently bone idle.
137. That husband of hers is bone idle. No wonder the house is such a mess.
138. Simple economics - I can't afford to leave it lying idle.
139. This was no idle threat from Rhodes, whose sole focus is winning.
140. I can promise you that. Simple economics - I can't afford to leave it lying idle.
141. And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity.
142. It is important to remember that logical consequences are never to be used as an idle threat.
143. Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State, researchers have not been idle.
144. No one is ever standing idle waiting for something to do.
145. Satan, who finds work for idle hands to do, also fills idle minds with fruitless speculation.
146. Their ideas gain plausibility amongst the idle, the envious and the unlettered.
147. The notion of bypassing capitalism, of direct transition from feudalism to socialism, was idle Utopianism.
148. The Mirror Group, for one, invested heavily in plant that stood idle.
149. And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter.
150. Millions of pounds worth of state-of-the-art equipment is lying idle.
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.