idle

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

inactif

paresseux

fainéant

oisif

fainéanter

chômer

désoeuvré

inoccupé

vain

inutile

négligeable

paresseuse

passif

vaurien

végéter

de loisir

inutilisé

stagner

abortif

à pourvoir

chômeur

en friche

flâner

futile

gratuit

léger

limace

lumière

mort

Synonymes

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

Traductions

ozioso

faul

ocioso

müßig

pigro

oziare

untätig

aylak

nutzlos

vano

träge

αδρανής

faulenzen

inattivo

boş

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈaɪd(ə)l/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: idelen

Hérité de ancien anglais: īdlian

Appartenant à allemand: eiteln

Hérité de moyen anglais: idel

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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”).