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— English words —

• idle adj. (Obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• idle adj. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• idle adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
• idle adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• idle adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• idle adj. (Obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• idle v. (Transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• idle v. (Intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• idle v. (Intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
• idle n. The state of idling, of being idle.
• idle n. (Mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
• idle n. (Gaming) An idle animation.
• idle n. (Gaming) An idle game.
• Idle prop.n. A surname.
• Idle prop.n. A suburb in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1737).
• Idle prop.n. A river, the River Idle in Nottinghamshire, England, which flows into the River Trent.
• IDLE prop.n. (Programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated DeveLopment Environment.
• IDLE prop.n. (Programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
• IDLE prop.n. (Pathology) Acronym of indolent lesion of epithelial origin.

— English words, defined in French —

• idle adj. Oisif.
• idle adj. Fainéant.
• idle adj. Vain.
• idle adj. (Désuet) Vide, vacant.
• idle adj. Ce dont on fait pas un usage approprié, inoccupé.
• idle adj. Qui n’est engagé dans aucune occupation, aucun emploi, qui est oisif, inemployé, inactif, qui ne fait rien.
• idle adj. Rétif au travail, à l’occupation ; fainéant ; paresseux ; indolent.
• idle adj. Sans importance, inutile, sans valeur, vain, négligeable, ridicule.
• idle v. Ne rien faire, être oisif ou inemployé, fainéanter.
• idle v. Tourner dans le vide.
• idle v. (Mécanique, Automobile) Tourner au ralenti.
• idle n. (Mécanique, Automobile) Ralenti (régime moteur).
• idle n. (Aviation) Plein réduit.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• idle s. Holgazán.
• idle v. Holgazanear.
• idle adj. Desocupado.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• idle adj. (Arcaico) vazio, vago.
• idle adj. Desocupado,à toa.
• idle adj. Desempregado, inativo, sem fazer nada.
• idle adj. Relutante ao trabalho, preguiçoso, vagabundo.
• idle adj. Inútil; vão; sem importância; bobo.
• idle v. Gastar em bobagens; desperdiçar; consumir.
• idle v. Perder tempo em ociosidades ou sendo desempregado.
• idle v. (Sobre um motor) correr a baixa velocidade ou sem câmbio engrenado.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• idle agg. Pigro, ozioso, passivo, inattivo.
• idle agg. Detto di persona, inoccupato.
• idle agg. Essere inattivo.
• idle agg. (Meccanica) detto di un motore, girare lentamente senza nessun carico.

111 English words from 19 English definitions

Acronym activity and animation any appropriately Averse being Bradford business City consume Development doing employed employment Empty engaged engine engineering England Environment epithelial flows foolish game Gaming gear grid headed idle idle␣game idleness idling importance important inactive in␣business indolent Initialism in␣particular Integrated into Intransitive labor lazy Learning lesion Light Light-headed lose lowest Mechanical Mechanical␣engineering much not nothing Nottinghamshire Obsolete occupation occupied of␣an origin or␣not out out␣of out␣of␣gear over particular Pathology power Programming Python ref river run run␣at selectable setting silly slothful slow speed spend spend␣time state suburb surname the thoughtless thrust tick tick␣over time Transitive Trent trifling unemployed used useless vacant vain waste West West␣Yorkshire which with without work worthless Yorkshire

30 English words from 28 foreign definitions

Automobile Aviation bobo dans dont engagé est fainéant faire fait importance indolent inutile motor nada occupation pas persona réduit régime ridicule sans sem tempo toa travail usage vacant vain vide

67 foreign words from 28 foreign definitions

approprié Arcaico à␣toa aucun aucune baixa câmbio carico consumir correr desempregado Desocupado desperdiçar Désuet detto di␣persona emploi Essere être fainéanter fazer Gastar Holgazán Holgazanear importância inactif inativo inattivo inemployé inoccupato inoccupé Inútil lentamente Mécanique Meccanica moteur motore négligeable ociosidades oisif ozioso paresseux passivo pas␣un Perder Pigro Plein Plein␣réduit preguiçoso qui ralenti Relutante Rétif rien sans␣valeur sendo senza Sobre Tourner Tourner␣au␣ralenti trabalho vagabundo vago valeur vão vazio velocidade

29 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

idled idler idles idlely idlers idlest idleth idledom idleful idlesse idleton idle␣game idlehead idlehood idleness idleship idlesome idletons Idlewild idle␣asset idle␣games idleheads idle␣wheel idleheaded idlenesses idle␣threat idle␣wheels idle␣threats idle␣as␣Ludlam's␣dog

139 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Fidler Gidley hidles kidlet midleg MIDlet ridley Ridley sidled sidler sidles Sidles Sidley tidley Vidler vidlet Widley aidless Beidler bridled bridler bridles Chidley daidled daidles Fidlers Fridley Gidleys gridled gridler gridles Gridley Heidler kidless kidlets Laidler lidless midleap midlegs Mid-Lent MIDlets quidlet ridleys Shidler sidlers Spidles tidleys twidled twidles vidlets +89 words

19 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

hidle sidle Sidle bridle daidle gridle Spidle twidle unidle dreidle nonidle bone-idle bone␣idle overidle unbridle draw␣bridle drew␣bridle double␣bridle scold's␣bridle

2 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

DLE IDL

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

eld 'eld LDI

6 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

deli diel Diel eild Lide lied

101 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

ailed beild belid bield biled clied Delhi Delia delid Delio delis Deliz deoil devil Devil Dible Diehl Diels diple divel dixel djeli dwile edile Edlin Elida elide elmid eolid Feild felid Fidel field Field filed flied gelid glide Glide hidel hidle hield ideal Ideal idele idled idler idles -ilide illed +51 words

48 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

DEI del Del del. Del. die DIL -dil dil- -dil- DLE DLI EDI EDL eid Eid EID 'eid 'Eid EIL eld 'eld Eli ide Ide IDE -ide IDL IED -ied ILD ile Ile %ile -ile ile- LDE LDI led LED lei Lei Lei. lid lie Lie LIE -lie

18 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

adle FDLE -ible ICLE -icle idée IDLH idli ID/LP IDLs idly I'd've Ihle Ille isle Isle izle Odle

11 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

DLE ide Ide IDE -ide IDL ile Ile %ile -ile ile-

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

idele

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