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Idler   /ˈaɪdələr/  /ˈaɪdlər/   Listen
Idler

noun
1.
Person who does no work.  Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer.


Idle

adjective
(compar. idler; superl. idlest)
1.
Not in action or at work.  "Idle drifters" , "The idle rich" , "An idle mind"
2.
Without a basis in reason or fact.  Synonyms: baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild.  "The allegations proved groundless" , "Idle fears" , "Unfounded suspicions" , "Unwarranted jealousy"
3.
Not in active use.  Synonym: unused.  "Idle hands"
4.
Silly or trivial.  Synonym: light.  "Light banter" , "Light idle chatter"
5.
Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility.  Synonym: loose.  "A loose tongue"
6.
Not yielding a return.  Synonym: dead.  "Idle funds"
7.
Not having a job.  Synonyms: jobless, out of work.  "Jobless transients" , "Many people in the area were out of work"



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"Idler" Quotes from Famous Books



... from him for any ostensible object, who can save himself from the curse of misusing his time, though he has for it no defined and necessary use; but such men are few, and are made of better metal than was Mr. Maule. He became an idler, a man of luxury, and then a spendthrift. He was now hardly beyond middle life, and he assumed for himself the character of a man of taste. He loved music, and pictures, and books, and pretty women. He loved also good eating and drinking; ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... and there with a ray of his own genius. Mrs. Gardiner was very zealous for the support of the Ladies' charity-school, in the parish of St. Sepulchre. It is confined to females; and, I am told, it afforded a hint for the story of Betty Broom in The Idler. ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell
... most notorious idler in the neighbourhood, hight "Barnulf with the nose." His eyes looked red and swollen, and his senses had become muddled and obtuse with long steeping. Silence was immediately enforced, while the assembly anxiously awaited the interrogation of this ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... knowledge of men to recognise the difference between the two. Count Plettau was a mere hopeless idler and vagabond. Frielinghausen was at least inspired with a wish to pull himself together and become ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... off with allegories," his companion objected petulantly. "The eternal blackness exists surely enough, even if my metaphor is faulty. I am disposed to be philosophical. Let me ramble on. Here am I, an idler in my boyhood, a harmless pleasure-seeker in my youth till I ran up against tragedy, and since then a drifter, a drifter with a slowly growing vice, lolling through life with no definite purpose, with no definite hope or wish, except," he went on a little drowsily, "that I think I'd like ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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