idle

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

ocioso

desempregado

inútil

desocupado

fútil

vão

preguiçoso

improfícuo

estéril

vazio

vaidoso

arrastar-se

inapropriado

inativo

infundado

sem base

sem fundamento

sem propósito

vagabundo

perder tempo

marcha lenta

não embasado

sembase

abortivo

semfundamento

descansar

emproado

fofo

frívolo

imprestável

inane

sem valor

vacante

vago

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

ozioso

faul

ocioso

müßig

pigro

untätig

aylak

oziare

nutzlos

träge

inattivo

inactif

αδρανής

faulenzen

vano

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈaɪd(ə)l/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: idelen

Herdado de inglês arcaico: īdlian

Cognato com alemão: eiteln

Herdado de inglês médio: idel

Herdado de inglês arcaico: 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”).