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What is the adjective for idle?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb idle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

idle
  1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
  2. Not being use 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.
  4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
  5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
  6. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The old printer has been idle for months.”
      “The machines are sitting idle with the ground so wet they cannot work.”
      “They be worse than idle men indeed, for that they seek to have wages for their loitering.”
idler
  1. comparative form of idle: more idle
idlesome
  1. Characterised or marked by idleness
idlest
  1. superlative form of idle: most idle
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sydney carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally.”
      “We know, on the contrary, that he has so much of both, that he is glad to get rid of them at the idlest haunts in the kingdom.”
      “But she was so incorporated with my existence, that it was the idlest of all fancies, and would soon rise out of my reach and sight, like gossamer floating in the air.”
idled
idling
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