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idle🔊

(obsolete) Empty, vacant.

📑 Synonyms: bare leer void

Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.

Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.

Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.

📑 Synonyms: indolent inert Thesaurus:lazy

Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

(obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.

To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.

To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.

Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

To cause (an engine) to idle(3)

The state of idling, of being idle.

(mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.

📑 Synonyms: full throttle wide open

(gaming) An idle animation.

(gaming) An idle game.

📑 Synonyms: idle game incremental game