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idler
Overview of noun idler
The noun idler has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum -- (person who does no work; "a lazy bum")
Overview of adj idle
The adj idle has 7 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (4) idle -- (not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind")
2. (1) baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild -- (without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy")
3. (1) idle, unused -- (not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands")
4. idle, light -- (silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter")
5. idle, loose -- (lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue")
6. dead, idle -- (not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds")
7. idle, jobless, out of work -- (not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun idler
1 sense of idler
Sense 1
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
=> nonworker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun idler
1 sense of idler
Sense 1
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
=> clock watcher
=> couch potato
=> dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, mope, lounger
=> dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke
=> daydreamer, woolgatherer
=> goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught
=> lazybones
=> lie-abed, slugabed
=> loon
=> slacker, shirker
=> sluggard, slug
=> spiv
=> sunbather
=> trifler
=> whittler
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun idler
1 sense of idler
Sense 1
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
=> nonworker
Antonyms of noun idler
Member Holonyms of noun idler
Substance Holonyms of noun idler
Part Holonyms of noun idler
Member Meronyms of noun idler
Substance Meronyms of noun idler
Part Meronyms of noun idler
Meronyms of noun idler
Holonyms of noun idler
Attributes of noun idler
Derived Forms of noun idler
1 sense of idler
Sense 1
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
RELATED TO>(verb) idle#2
=> idle, laze, slug, stagnate
Domain of noun idler
Domain Terms of noun idler
Familiarity of noun idler
idler used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun idler
1 sense of idler
Sense 1
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
> nonworker
=> deadhead
=> idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
=> retiree, retired person
=> striker
=> unemployed person
=> vacationer, vacationist
Meronyms of noun idler
1 sense of idler
Sense 1
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
=> nonworker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun idler
Grep of noun idler
idler
idler pulley
Antonyms of adj idle
7 senses of idle
Sense 1
idle (vs. busy)
busy (vs. idle)
=> at work(predicate)
=> drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling
=> engaged, occupied
=> overbusy
=> tied up(predicate)
=> up to
Sense 2
baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild
INDIRECT (VIA unsupported, unsupported) -> supported
INDIRECT (VIA unsupported) -> supported
Sense 3
idle, unused
INDIRECT (VIA inactive) -> active
Sense 4
idle, light
INDIRECT (VIA frivolous) -> serious
Sense 5
idle, loose
INDIRECT (VIA irresponsible) -> responsible
Sense 6
dead, idle
INDIRECT (VIA unprofitable) -> profitable
Sense 7
idle, jobless, out of work
INDIRECT (VIA unemployed) -> employed
Similarity of adj idle
7 senses of idle
Sense 1
idle (vs. busy)
=> bone-idle, bone-lazy
=> faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
=> lackadaisical
=> leisured
=> unengaged
Also See> ineffective#1, uneffective#1, ineffectual#1; unemployed#1
Sense 2
baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild
=> unsupported (vs. supported)(vs. supported)
Sense 3
idle, unused
=> inactive (vs. active)
Sense 4
idle, light
=> frivolous (vs. serious)
Sense 5
idle, loose
=> irresponsible (vs. responsible)
Sense 6
dead, idle
=> unprofitable (vs. profitable)
Sense 7
idle, jobless, out of work
=> unemployed (vs. employed)
Pertainyms of adj idle
Attributes of adj idle
Domain of adj idle
Domain Terms of adj idle
Familiarity of adj idle
idle used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =7)
Grep of adj idle
bone-idle
idle
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