Crossword-Solution: IDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Idle | superl. | Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren. |
| Idle | superl. | Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours. |
| Idle | superl. | Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen. |
| Idle | superl. | Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow. |
| Idle | superl. | Light-headed; foolish. |
| Idle | v. i. | To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business. |
| Idle | v. t. | To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IDLE | anagram | DEIL, DELI, DIEL, EILD, ELID, ILED, LEDI, LEID, LIED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with IDLE (5)
Idle in his youth was Kwasind, Very listless, dull, and dreamy, Never played with other children, Never fished and never hunted, Not like other children was he; But they saw that much he fasted, Much his Manito entreated, Much besought his Guardian Spirit.
Full soon Among them he arriv’d; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand Thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in thir Soules infix’d Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost, All courage; down thir idle weapons drop’d; O’re Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate, That wish’d the Mountains now might be again Thrown on them as a shelter from his ire.
The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: “I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!” The Lioness A CONTROVERSY prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of whelps at a birth.
The paper came, and I read it from week to week with such feelings as it would be quite idle for me to attempt to describe.
Sometimes, as she lay thus luxuriously idle, her eyes closed, she used to have an illusion of being lifted up bodily and carried lightly by some one very strong.
Quotes with IDLE (3)
Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the world is itself crippled by resignation before reality, and becomes a defeatism of reason after the transformation of the world failed. It guarantees no place from which theory as such could be concretely convicted of the anachronism, which then as now it is suspected of. Perhaps the interpretation which promised the …
It is quite likely that while you are praying for God’s mercy and your wishes to be answered He too may be waiting to give you the desired wish. But, you have to at least start working towards it. You can’t just be sitting idle waiting for miracles. You have to work towards it and when the going gets tough, pray to Him to help you out. To seek God’s help you have to help yourself too.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Used 2,209 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).