Definition of Idle

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Definition of Idle

Idle

Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.

Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.

Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.

Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.

Light-headed; foolish.

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.

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Idle Quotations

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade

Idle Translations

idle in Italian is pigro, ozioso, passivo
idle in Norwegian is drive dank, doven, uvirksom
idle in Spanish is perezoso, pasivo, ocioso

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