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/ˈīd(ə)l/
adjective
  1. (of a person) avoiding work; lazy.
    "idle students"
    synonyms: lazy, indolent, slothful, work-shy, shiftless, loafing, inactive, inert, sluggish, lethargic, languorous, listless, torpid, remiss, negligent, slack, lax, lackadaisical, impassive, good-for-nothing, do-nothing, leisurely, bone idle, fainéant, otiose
  2. without purpose or effect; pointless.
    "he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter"
    synonyms: frivolous, trivial, trifling, minor, petty, foolish, lightweight, shallow, superficial, insignificant, unimportant, worthless, valueless, pointless, paltry, niggling, peripheral, without depth, inane, fatuous, senseless, meaningless, purposeless, unnecessary, time-wasting

verb
  1. spend time doing nothing.
    "four men were idling outside the shop"
    synonyms: do nothing, be inactive, vegetate, sit back, take it easy, rest on one's oars, mark time, kick one's heels, twiddle one's thumbs, kill time, languish, laze (around), lounge (around), loll (around), loaf (around), slouch (around), go to seed, degenerate, molder, stagnate, hang around, veg out, mooch about, mooch around, slummock, bum around, bat around, lollygag, lay on one's oars, fritter, while, laze, loiter, pass, spend, use, employ, use up, occupy, take up, fill up, fill in, fill, beguile, expend, devote, waste, dissipate, kill
  2. (of an engine) run slowly while disconnected from a load or out of gear.
    "the car is noisily idling in the street"
    synonyms: tick over, run slowly in neutral

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