idling

Speech parts

1. idling - Noun

2. idling - Verb

Meaning

of Idle

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

idleness loafing slack playing slug loaf empty slide idle lounge drifting abortive emptying sloth trifling
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Antonyms

working business active engineering changing activeness
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Hypernyms

inactivity

Hyponyms

dolce far niente

Phrases with the word

anti-idling

Examples

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week. Tom Hodgkinson

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse. Tom Hodgkinson

Idling is not my strong suit. Cam Gigandet

The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

idli idlike idlily idling speed idling sprocket idlingly