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Idler   /ˈaɪdələr/  /ˈaɪdlər/   Listen
Idler

noun
1.
Person who does no work.  Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer.


Idle

adjective
(compar. idler; superl. idlest)
1.
Not in action or at work.  "Idle drifters" , "The idle rich" , "An idle mind"
2.
Without a basis in reason or fact.  Synonyms: baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild.  "The allegations proved groundless" , "Idle fears" , "Unfounded suspicions" , "Unwarranted jealousy"
3.
Not in active use.  Synonym: unused.  "Idle hands"
4.
Silly or trivial.  Synonym: light.  "Light banter" , "Light idle chatter"
5.
Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility.  Synonym: loose.  "A loose tongue"
6.
Not yielding a return.  Synonym: dead.  "Idle funds"
7.
Not having a job.  Synonyms: jobless, out of work.  "Jobless transients" , "Many people in the area were out of work"



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"Idler" Quotes from Famous Books



... the mask, smooth and sterile, of the hunger for adornment, for gold bands and jewels and perfume, for goffered linen and draperies of silk and scarlet. She was the naked idler stained with antimony in the clay courts of Sumeria; the Paphian with painted feet loitering on the roofs of Memphis while the blocks of red sandstone floated sluggishly down the Nile for the pyramid of Khufu the King; she was the flushed voluptuousness ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... The Idler may be ranked among the best attempts which have been made to render our common newspapers the medium of rational amusement; and it maintained its ground in this character longer than any of the papers which have ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson
... produced a number of successful plays, notably Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of being Earnest, Pinero's Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Princess and the Butterfiy, His House in Order and The Thunderbolt; C. Haddon Chambers's The Idler; H. A. Jones's Masqueraders; Alfred Sutro's John Glayde's Honour and The Builder of Bridges; Carton's Liberty Hall and The Tree of Knowledge; Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau; and Stephen Phillips's Paolo and Francesca, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... gaed by, and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business. The minister was weel thocht o'; he was aye late at the writing—folk wad see his can'le doon by the Dule Water after twal' at e'en; and he seemed pleased wi' himsel' and upsitten ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... was to impress upon the popular mind the reality of the objects of faith, and the truth of the histories of Scripture, by giving visible form to both. That function has now passed away, and none has as yet taken its place. The painter has no profession, no purpose. He is an idler on the earth, chasing the shadows of his ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin


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