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idle
English
- 🔊 not in active use“the machinery sat idle during the strike”
- 🔊 not in action or at work“an idle laborer”
- 🔊 not having a job“idle carpenters”
- 🔊 lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility“idle talk”
- 🔊 silly or trivial“idle pleasure”
- 🔊 not yielding a return“dead capital”
- 🔊 without a basis in reason or fact“baseless gossip”
- 🔊 the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling“the car engine was running at idle”
- 🔊 run disconnected or idle“the engine is idling”
- 🔊 be idle“The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”
Spanish
- 🔊 desquehacerado idle
- 🔊 ocioso idle
- 🔊 vagar to idle
- 🔊 flojear to idle, be lazy
- 🔊 haraganear to idle, to loaf around
- 🔊 huevear to idle, loaf, waste time.
- 🔊 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