Synonyms of the word

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

baseless

• adj. Of reasoning: based on something that is not true.
• adj. Without a physical base.

bone-idle

• adj. (Britain, idiomatic) utterly lazy.

dead

• adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
• adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
• adj. Without emotion.
• adj. Stationary; static.
• adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• adj. Unproductive.
• adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
• adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
• adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
• adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
• adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
• adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
• adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
• adj. (not comparable) Exact.
• adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
• adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
• adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
• adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• adv. (degree) Exactly right.
• adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
• adv. As if dead.
• n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
• v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
• v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

faineant

• n. An irresponsible or lazy person.

frivolous

• adj. Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
• adj. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.
• adj. (law) In litigation, a lawsuit filed by a party who is aware the claim is without merit and has no reasonable…

groundless

• adj. Without any grounds to support it; baseless.

inactive

• adj. Not active, temporarily or permanently.
• adj. Not functioning or operating; broken down.
• adj. Retired from duty or service.
• adj. (chemistry) Relatively inert.
• adj. (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

indolent

• adj. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
• adj. Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort).
• adj. (medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
• adj. (medicine) Healing slowly.

ineffective

• adj. not having the desired effect; ineffectual.
• adj. lacking in ability; incompetent or inadequate.

ineffectual

• adj. unable or insufficient to produce effect; futile.
• adj. worthless.
• adj. weak, indecisive; lacking forcefulness.

irresponsible

• adj. Lacking a sense of responsibility; incapable of or not chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond…
• adj. Not responsible; not subject to responsibility; not to be held accountable, or called into question.
• n. Someone who is not responsible.

jobless

• adj. Lacking employment.
• n. Person who has no job.

lackadaisical

• adj. Showing no interest, vigor, determination, or enthusiasm.
• adj. Lazy; slothful; indolent.

laze

• n. Laziness.
• n. An instance of lazing.
• v. To be lazy, waste time.
• v. To pass time relaxing.
• n. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

lazy

• adj. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
• adj. Causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
• adj. Sluggish; slow-moving.
• adj. Lax.
• adj. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
• adj. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
• adj. (Britain, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
• v. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
• n. A lazy person.
• n. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).

leisured

• adj. Having leisure, having time that need not be dedicated to work.
• adj. Leisurely, filled with leisure.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

loose

• v. (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
• v. (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
• v. (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
• v. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
• v. (archery) to shoot (an arrow).
• v. (obsolete) To set sail.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
• adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
• adj. Not held or packaged together.
• adj. Not under control.
• adj. Not fitting closely.
• adj. Not compact.
• adj. Relaxed.
• adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
• adj. Indiscreet.
• adj. (dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
• adj. (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
• n. (archery) The release of an arrow.
• n. (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
• n. (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
• n. Freedom from restraint.
• n. A letting go; discharge.
• interj. (archery) begin shooting; release your arrows.
• v. Misspelling of lose.

operation

• n. The method by which a device performs its function.
• n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
• n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• n. A planned undertaking.
• n. A business or organization.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
• n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the…
• n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
• n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

otiose

• adj. Resulting in no effect.
• adj. Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
• adj. Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

slothful

• adj. Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.

slug

• n. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
• n. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. A bullet (projectile).
• n. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
• n. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
• n. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of…
• n. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared…
• n. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
• n. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
• n. (television editing) A black screen.
• n. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed…
• n. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
• n. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
• n. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
• n. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
• n. A ship that sails slowly.
• n. A blow, usually with the fist.
• v. To drink quickly; to gulp.
• v. To down a shot.
• v. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
• v. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation…
• v. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
• v. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
• v. To make sluggish.

stagnate

• v. To cease motion, activity, or progress.

unemployed

• adj. Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
• adj. Having no use, not doing work.
• n. Unemployed people.

unengaged

• adj. Not engaged.

unfounded

• adj. Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
• adj. Not having been founded or instituted.

unprofitable

• adj. Not making a profit.

unsupported

• adj. Without physical support.
• adj. For which support or help is not available.
• adj. Without confirmation from a credible source, without verifying support.

unused

• adj. (not comparable) Not used.
• adj. Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with.

unwarranted

• adj. Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
• adj. Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.

wild

• adj. Untamed; not domesticated.
• adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
• adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
• adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
• adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
• adj. Enthusiastic.
• adj. Inaccurate.
• adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
• adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
• adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
• adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
• n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially…

work-shy

• adj. Alternative spelling of workshy.