Synonyms: idle
Definition: the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
Usage: the car engine was running at idle
Similar words: operation
Definition: the state of being in effect or being operative
Usage: that rule is no longer in operation
Definition: not in active use
Usage: the machinery sat idle during the strike; idle hands
Similar words: inactive
Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Usage: an inactive mine; inactive accounts; inactive machinery
Synonyms: idle
Definition: not in action or at work
Usage: an idle laborer; idle drifters; the idle rich; an idle mind
Similar words: bone-idle, bone-lazy
Definition: constitutionally lazy or idle
Similar words: indolent, otiose, slothful, work-shy, lazy, faineant
Definition: disinclined to work or exertion
Usage: faineant kings under whose rule the country languished; an indolent hanger-on; too lazy to wash the dishes; shiftless idle youth; slothful employees; the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy
Similar words: lackadaisical
Definition: idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way
Usage: she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical; a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town- P.G.Wodehouse
Similar words: leisured
Definition: free from duties or responsibilities
Usage: he writes in his leisure hours; life as it ought to be for the leisure classes- J.J.Chapman; even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men- Ida Craven
Similar words: unengaged
Definition: not busy or occupied; free
Usage: the cancellation left her unengaged a good part of the afternoon
Synonyms: jobless, out of work, idle
Definition: not having a job
Usage: idle carpenters; jobless transients; many people in the area were out of work
Similar words: unemployed
Definition: not engaged in a gainful occupation
Usage: unemployed workers marched on the capital
Definition: not yielding a return
Usage: dead capital; idle funds
Similar words: unprofitable
Definition: producing little or no profit or gain
Usage: deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable
Definition: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
Usage: idle talk; a loose tongue
Similar words: irresponsible
Definition: showing lack of care for consequences
Usage: behaved like an irresponsible idiot; hasty and irresponsible action
Definition: silly or trivial
Usage: idle pleasure; light banter; light idle chatter
Similar words: frivolous
Definition: not serious in content or attitude or behavior
Usage: a frivolous novel; a frivolous remark; a frivolous young woman
Synonyms: unwarranted, wild, baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded
Definition: without a basis in reason or fact
Usage: baseless gossip; the allegations proved groundless; idle fears; unfounded suspicions; unwarranted jealousy
Similar words: unsupported
Definition: not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid
Usage: unsupported accusations