Synonyms for Idles | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "idles" (558 found)

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Closest matches (112)

faineant lackadaisical leisured light out of work pointless unused unwarranted abortive absurd airy amble ambling asinine asleep at a standstill at anchor at leisure at liberty at loose ends

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Adjective(47 words)

inert silly simple slight torpid unemployed unoccupied abeyant anachronistic antediluvial antediluvian antiquated antique archaic asinine at rest backward backwards balmy bare

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Adjective(2 words)

baseless dead

Verb(4 words)

bludge dawdle dick around dilly-dally

Strong matches (167)

drag drag along drag out dribble away drift drivel away drone easy empty fallow faltering fatuitous fatuous fiddle fiddle faddle fiddle with fiddle-faddle fidget fidget with finger with

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Adjective(46 words)

duffle-headed dull dull-headed dull-witted dumb duncical elderly employmentally challenged expired extinct fainéant fallow fatuous foolish for the birds fossilized frivolous fusty futile fuzzy-headed

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Verb(4 words)

faff about footer footle laze

Noun(4 words)

full throttle idle game incremental game indolent lesion of epithelial origin

Adjective(4 words)

groundless jobless light loose

Proper Noun(1 words)

ide

Related words (279)

Adjective(81 words)

mean minor miserable miss havishamesque mookish naive negligible nitty nonactive nondescript nonemployed nothingburger obsolete occupationless old old school old-fashioned oldfangled on the wallaby on the wallaby track

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meaningless meditative mess around moderate monkey monkey around mooch mooch around moon moon around mosey motionless moveless muck muddle away neuter neutral not budge not stir nugacious

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nugatory off off duty off work open otiose out of commission out of employ out of harness paralytic paralyzed passive piddle piss away play play around play with poke poke along poking poky potter potter away procrastinating putter quiescent quiet quietist quietistic recumbent redundant relax relaxed reluctant repose rest resting retired riding at anchor saunter sauntering semiretired senseless shallow shiftless shuffle along shuffling silly sit sit around sit back sit it out slack sleep sleepy slender slight slothful slouch slouch around slow slow as death slow as molasses slow as slow slow-crawling slow-foot slow-going slow-legged slow-moving slow-paced slow-poky slow-running slow-sailing slow-stepped sluggish slumber smatter smolder snail-paced snaillike spare specious stagger along staggering stagnant stagnate stagnating stand stand around standpat standstill static stationary statuelike still stock still stock-still stroll strolling superficial supine take it easy tarry tentative tinker toddle toddle along toddling tortoiselike totter totter along tottering toy toy with traipse trifle trifle away trifling trite trivial trudging turtlelike twiddle unavailing unbased unemployable unemployed unengaged unfounded unfruitful ungrounded unhurried unimportant unmoved unmoving unoccupied unproductive unsupportable unsupported unsustainable unsustained untenable useless vacant vacuous vain vapid vegetable vegetate vegetative waddle waddling wait and see walk waste watch and wait while away windy without basis without foundation workless worm worm along worthless

Adjective(5 words)

out of work unfounded unused unwarranted wild

Verb(7 words)

sit on one's hands slug stagnate stand by tick over tool around while

Noun(2 words)

standstill wide open

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Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He idles away his time.

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He idles away the time.

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