Idle is valid Scrabble Word

Is idle a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is idle valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
5 points in Scrabble
6 points in WWF

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

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Words that contain IDLE

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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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