Idle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IDLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to be unoccupied
• spend time doing nothing
• move aimlessly or lazily
• take out of use or employment
• (of an engine) run slowly while disconnected from a load or out of gear
• cause (an engine) to idle.
• To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
• To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.
• run disconnected or idle
• be idle; exist in a changeless situation
• spend (time) doing very little
NOUN:
• the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
ADJECTIVE:
• inactive
• (of a person) avoiding work; lazy
• (of a person) not working; unemployed
• (especially of a machine or factory) not active or in use
• (of time) characterized by inaction or absence of significant activity
• (of money) held in cash or in accounts paying no interest.
• without purpose or effect; pointless
• (especially of a threat or boast) without foundation
• not doing anything
• not in action or at work
• without a basis in reason or fact
• not in active use
• silly or trivial
• lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
• not yielding a return
• not having a job
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass time idly

Words related to IDLE

idled7 idlehood13 idlehoods14 idleness9 idler6 idles6 idlesse8 idlesses9 idlest7 idling8 idly8 inactive13

How to use IDLE in a sentence

• To my mind it is idle to endeavour to impose a permanent limitation of armaments upon Germany unless we are prepared similarly to impose a limitation upon ourselves.
• This is no idle word, but a fact borne out by circumstances.
• The animals jogged along, with the man half asleep on the front seat, his idle whip sloping over his shoulder.
• My wife began by saying they had not been idle in my absence.
• But it is worse than idle to bring in as evidence John Wilkes.
• The women looked after their meagre household concerns, but the men were generally idle, standing in groups, or sitting in front of the shanties talking with the women.
• Depend upon it, I said, Miss Garston will hardly have a minute to give to our idle chatter.
• I will always send him what he wants, but it is idle for us to talk together any more.
• Already, on leaving Brent Rock, Paul Balcom had not been idle.
• Then they would go back and work for the farmers they had robbed, drunk, asleep, or idle the whole day.
• He was remote from any possible interruption from Memphis, and the slaves in the gorge and in the stone-pits had no opportunity to come upon his sacrilege in idle hours.
• He descended through the gorge and found that the Hebrews were but nominally idle.
• The noise the two made attracted only the idle curiosity of a few people.
• Letters from the South say the negroes are at work in some localities, but the whites are everywhere idle.
• A person cannot idle away the hours and come to prominence.
• Indeed, a thing of this slight and idle nature does not deserve to have much more pains employed upon it.
• He had learned in bitterness how idle gossip may eat away the efficiency of a whole company.
• They had no time nor spare strength for dissipation, and idle thoughts, and vulgar conversation.
• The Germans rightly surmised that they would not remain idle long after daylight.
• Your Majesty fears his growing idle and careless, and doubtless you are right.
• Joy, has for her husband an idle gentleman, a rare thing in this place.
• It were idle to attempt to map out his life through the years that followed.

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