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IDLE

idle - a 
not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind" 

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Synonyms

empty, unproductive, useless, hollow, rambling, abortive, bootless, frivolous, fruitless, futile, groundless

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Examples

Whether another head of the Church could have prevented the defection of England is of course an idle question.

After embarrassed apologies, she seemed compelled to sit down and chat, as if idle conversation might be penance for the pilfered peach pie.

Natasha had no desire to go out anywhere and wandered from room to room like a shadow, idle and listless.

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Etymology

idle (adj.)
Old English idel "empty, void; vain; worthless, useless," from Proto-West Germanic *idla- (source also of Old Saxon idal, Old Frisian idel "empty, worthless," Old Dutch idil, Old High German ital, German eitel "vain, useless, mere, pure"), a word of unknown origin.

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