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idle

English

  1. 🔊 not in active use
    “the machinery sat idle during the strike”
  2. 🔊 not in action or at work
    “an idle laborer”
  3. 🔊 not having a job
    “idle carpenters”
  4. 🔊 lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
    “idle talk”
  5. 🔊 silly or trivial
    “idle pleasure”
  6. 🔊 not yielding a return
    “dead capital”
  7. 🔊 without a basis in reason or fact
    “baseless gossip”
  8. 🔊 the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
    “the car engine was running at idle”
  9. 🔊 run disconnected or idle
    “the engine is idling”
  10. 🔊 be idle
    “The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desquehacerado idle
  2. 🔊 ocioso idle
  3. 🔊 vagar to idle
  4. 🔊 flojear to idle, be lazy
  5. 🔊 haraganear to idle, to loaf around
  6. 🔊 huevear to idle, loaf, waste time.
  7. 🔊 holgazanear to idle, to laze about, to loaf about, to goof off, to loaf, to laze, to lounge, to lie around, to loiter, to slack off, to slack

Similar words

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