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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181. It was an idle threat on Lavinia's part to hire a companion at all.
182. Note under this option the labour cost will be nil because labour is currently available but idle.
183. It stood idle for some time, eventually being sold in 1897 and demolished a year or so later.
184. But Branson, 42, does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner.
185. It would be idle to pretend that the Trust is wholly free from some of these faults; few organisations are.
186. Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean.
187. These are no idle scratchings but have been carefully and purposefully incised,(http://sentencedict.com/idle.html) and the reason is self-evident.
188. He planned to keep them idle, like some ship's crew becalmed miles from shore.
189. In idle moments, I have often pictured Id! in the training camps, climbing netted gantries.
190. Tim opened his mouth to tell him to get off his idle backside, and closed it again.
191. He said it was a playground for the idle rich and ought to be used to grow crops for the proletariat.
192. By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle[sentencedict.com], stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes.
193. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo 
194. The truly enormous condor, with its wingspread of ten feet, is a tempting target for the idle rifle.
195. But the taxi rank outside the hotel had been full and idle and the target had been straight into a vehicle.
196. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare
197. Clean, the Fouga glides well, so it is easy to throttle back to idle and float home.
198. 34 An idle youth, a needy age.
199. When BB is idle for how long the standby time is it will be locked automatically.
200. At such a time could Frederick Barbarossa remain idle at home?
201. Well , right now I am quite idle as a public servant in local city.
202. It is hardly possible to predict when the huge amount of legal and illegal idle fund will come or go.
203. Cost constraints circumstances, the development strategy can be taken in advance to reduce idle costs.
204. Idle to fine, clip cigarette in the forefinger and middle finger.
205. Then basic calibration such as ECU I/O calibration, idle speed calibration, cold start calibration, ignition advance calibration, air fuel ratio calibration, boost pressure calibration are conducted.
206. A novel channel selection algorithm is proposed based on the prediction of the probability of channel being idle.
207. mpstat now reports (below) that logical CPU 0 is back to an idle state, while CPU 1 takes over the workload from CPU 0 for WPAR "def"'s processes.
208. Corrosion was the major problem of long - term idle equipment.
209. Sometimes , when you're idle , you give up the ghost.
210. But he calls the unemployment checks " idle money. "
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.