Crossword-Solution: IDLE 4 letters, 958 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
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
IDLE anagram DEIL, DELI, DIEL, EILD, ELID, ILED, LEDI, LEID, LIED

We have 958 clues for the answer “IDLE”

Clue Answers
"Am I vital / If my heart is ___?" (Moses Sumney) 1 answer
"As ___ as a painted ship . . . " 1 answer
"As ___ as a painted ship ...": Coleridge 1 answer
"At liberty," to performers 1 answer
"Monty Python" regular 1 answer
"Monty Python" trouper 1 answer
"Nuns on the Run" star 1 answer
"Spamalot" co-creator Eric 1 answer
"Spamalot" creator Eric 1 answer
"Spamalot" lyricist Eric 1 answer
"Tears, ___ tears, I know not what they mean": Tennyson 1 answer
"The devil finds work for ___ hands" 1 answer
"Trivolous" 1 answer
"___ as a painted ship." 1 answer
"___ hands are the devil's playthings" 1 answer
"___ hands are the devil's tools" 1 answer
"___ hands are the devil's workshop" 1 answer
Actor Eric of "Monty Python" 1 answer
Adjective for the rich. 1 answer
Aimless; pointless 1 answer
All the unemployed and some of the rich 1 answer
An anagram for deli 1 answer
Not engaged in any activity 1 answer
At a standsfill 1 answer
Auto mechanic's concern 1 answer
Awaiting a task 1 answer
Awaiting an assignment 1 answer
Awaiting orders, say 1 answer
Away from a chat program, say 1 answer
Barely run the engine 1 answer
Barely run, as an engine 1 answer
Baseless, as a threat 1 answer
Baseless, as rumors 1 answer
Be a layabout 1 answer
Be in neutral 1 answer
Between activities 1 answer
Between chores 1 answer
Between gigs 1 answer
Between jobs 1 answer
Between positions 1 answer
Between tasks 1 answer
Busy doing nothing 1 answer
Busy loafing 1 answer
Butt-on-couch 1 answer
Cause a screen saver to start 1 answer
Causing a screen saver to start 1 answer
Cleese co-star 1 answer
Cleese cohort 1 answer
Cleese colleague 1 answer
Cleese companion 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
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.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
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.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
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.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
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.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

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 …
Theodor W. Adorno Negative Dialectics
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.
Latika Teotia
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 2,209 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).