idle

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
3. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
4. (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)

Adj

1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
2. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
3. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
6. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.

Noun

1. The state of idling, of being idle.
2. The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
3. An idle animation.
4. An idle game.

Conceptos

ocioso

inútil

holgazanear

haraganear

holgazán

inactivo

desocupado

haragán

gandulear

vano

flojo

parado

poltrón

poltrona

ineficaz

vago

perezoso

ilusorio

desempleado

insulsa

bribón

inconducente

fútil

hueco

insubstancial

pasivo

vacante

vacío

vagabundo

vagar

vanidoso

achancharse

escabullirse

flojear

holgar

improductivo

negligente

tunar

en reposo

holgazan

Sinónimos

lazy

loaf

slothful

indolent

laze

lounge

inactive

vain

unoccupied

dawdle

unemployed

useless

unused

otiose

waste time

frivolous

futile

free

🆓

jobless

sluggish

slack

aimless

groundless

loiter

unfounded

baseless

shiftless

lounge about

out of work

worthless

loose

trivial

light

pointless

dead

💀

loaf about

leisure

leisured

empty

sluggard

dally

slug

stagnate

shirk

shallow

remiss

slow

sterile

goof off

fuck off

Traducciones

ozioso

faul

müßig

pigro

oziare

untätig

aylak

nutzlos

träge

inattivo

αδρανής

inactif

faulenzen

vano

boş

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈaɪd(ə)l/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: idelen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: īdlian

Cognado con alemán: eiteln

Heredado de inglés medio: idel

Heredado de inglés antiguo: īdel

In summary

From Middle English idelen, from Old English īdlian, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalēn. Cognate with German eiteln (“to make empty, free up”).