Idled

Synonyms for "idled" (19 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Verb(4 words)

Strong matches (6)

Verb(6 words)

Related words (9)

Verb(9 words)
pauserunstallunemployedunproductive timeunspent timeunutilizedunutilized timewait

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

12 entries
activitybehaviorinactive statelabor forcemachinery functionoperationpeopleresource usestatestatustime useunutilized resource

More specific

18 entries
dawdlingengine idlingidled capacityidled capitalidled equipmentidled graduatesidled hoursidled inventoryidled machineryidled minutesidled personnelidled workersidled workforcelazingloafingmachine idling

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

12 entries
engine idlingidle chatteridle engineidle machineryidle timeidled capacityidled capitalidled hoursidled inventoryidled machineryidled workforceidling speed

Inflections

4 entries
idlesidlingmore idlemost idle

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I regret having idled away my youth.

Source: tatoeba (271999)

He idled away a whole day.

Source: tatoeba (293795)

She idled away many hours lying in the hammock.

Source: tatoeba (312015)

Having idled jobless for a while I wavered. I'd rushed into handing in my notice but maybe I should have endured it and kept going...

Source: tatoeba (327042)

Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.

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