Crossword-Solution: IDLER 5 letters, 212 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Idler	n.	One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
Idler	n.	One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.
Idler	n.	An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
IDLER	anagram	RILED

We have 212 clues for the answer “IDLER”

Clue	Answers
A fool of time.	1 answer
Aesop's grasshopper, e.g.	1 answer
Aesop's grasshopper, for one	1 answer
Aesop's grasshopper, notably	1 answer
Aesop's lazy grasshopper, for one	1 answer
Ambitionless one	1 answer
An empty railroad car.	1 answer
Believer in more than half a loaf?	1 answer
Car at a long light, say	1 answer
Car in a jam	1 answer
Car in a jam, say	1 answer
Car waiting at the airport, maybe	1 answer
Certain gear	1 answer
Clock watcher's cousin.	1 answer
Couch patato	1 answer
Couch potato, e.g.	1 answer
Do-nothing person	1 answer
Dynamo's antithesis	1 answer
Empty flatcar	1 answer
Fabled grasshopper, for one	1 answer
Flâneur	1 answer
Flâneur or fainéant	1 answer
Flâneur or lazzarone	1 answer
Garfield, notably	1 answer
Gentleman of leisure?	1 answer
Getaway car, during the robbery	1 answer
Hardly a doer	1 answer
He doesn't do anything	1 answer
He doesn't do much	1 answer
He kills time	1 answer
Inactive one	1 answer
Lazy bones	1 answer
Lazzarone	1 answer
Less important, as talk	1 answer
Less occupied	1 answer
Loafing individual	1 answer
Lotus-eater	1 answer
One constantly chilling	1 answer
One doing nothing	1 answer
One doing zero	1 answer
One goofing off	1 answer
One in an airport taxi line, for the most part	1 answer
One just passing time	1 answer
One just sitting around	1 answer
One just twiddling his thumbs	1 answer
One loafing	1 answer
One loitering	1 answer
One not seeking work	1 answer
One on the side lines.	1 answer
One reluctant to work	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTEEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with IDLER (5)

Though the warriors called him Faint-Heart, Called him coward, Shaugodaya, Idler, gambler, Yenadizze, Little heeded he their jesting, Little cared he for their insults, For the women and the maidens Loved the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Britling--Walt was the man who 'saw it through.' "The glutton, the idler, and the fool in their deadly path across history.

The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008

These were chiefly to be observed upon a pebbly strand which lay along the front of the village and served as the gathering-point of its idler inhabitants.

Confidence Henry James 2006

Neither to the wicked, nor to the idler, is there any solid peace: _“Troubled, like the restless sea.”_ I had excellent opportunities of witnessing the restless discontent and the capricious irritation of the Lloyds.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Quotes with IDLER (3)

The faster you go, the idler you get.

Ferreira Gullar

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rum…

Osamu Dazai The Setting Sun

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

Tom Hodgkinson

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 333 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).