| 单词 | idle |
| 例句 | idle adjective 1.•an idle person:lazy, indolent, slothful, work-shy, shiftless, inactive, sluggish, lethargic, listless | slack, lax, lackadaisical, good-for-nothing | rare otiose. ANT industrious. 2.•being idle won't pay the bills:unemployed, jobless, out-of-work, redundant, between jobs, workless, unwaged, unoccupied. ANT employed. 3.•they left the machine idle:inactive, unused, unoccupied, unemployed, disused | not in use, out of use, out of action, inoperative, nonfunctioning, out of service. ANT working. 4.•their idle hours:unoccupied, spare, empty, vacant, unfilled, available. ANT busy, full. 5.•idle remarks:frivolous, trivial, trifling, vain, minor, petty, lightweight, shallow, superficial, insignificant, unimportant, worthless, paltry, niggling, peripheral, inane, fatuous | unnecessary, time-wasting. ANT meaningful, serious. 6.•idle threats:empty, meaningless, pointless, worthless, vain, hollow, insubstantial, futile, ineffective, ineffectual | groundless, baseless. ANT serious.▶verb 1.•Lily idled on the window seat:do nothing, be inactive, vegetate, take it easy, mark time, twiddle one's thumbs, kill time, languish, laze, lounge, loll, loaf, loiter | informal hang around, veg out, bum around, lollygag. 2.•he let the engine idle:run in neutral, run.CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See |
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