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1. Person who does no work
   "a lazy idler";
   - loafer, do-nothing [informal], layabout [informal], bum [N. Amer, informal], slacker [informal], shirker [informal], deadbeat [informal]

1. Not in action or at work
   "an idle labourer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
    
2. Without a basis in reason or fact
   "idle fears";
   - baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild
    
3. Not in active use
   "idle hands"; "the machinery sat idle during the strike";
   - unused
    
4. Silly or trivial
   "idle pleasure"; "light idle chatter";
   - light
    
5. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
   "idle talk";
   - loose
    
6. Not yielding a return
   "idle funds";
   - dead
    
7. Not having a job
   "idle carpenters";
   - jobless, out of work

Derived forms: idlers

See also: bone-idle, bone-lazy, fainéant [archaic], frivolous, inactive, indolent, ineffective, ineffectual, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lazy, leisured, otiose, slothful, uneffective, unemployed, unengaged, unprofitable, unsupported, work-shy

Type of: nonworker

Antonym: busy

Encyclopedia: Idler