Definitions For Idleness

noun

  • Having no employment
  • The trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
  • The quality of lacking substance or value
  • To run without being connected for doing useful work
  • To spend time doing nothing or nothing useful
  • To cause (someone or something) to stop working : to make (someone or something) idle

Is Idleness a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
11

The word Idleness is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Idleness in a Sentence

  • There has been a lot of idle speculation about what might happen, but no one really knows.
  • The idle days of summer
  • She left the engine idling for a few seconds before she turned it off.
  • The cars idled in traffic.
  • A group of boys idled in the doorway.

Synonyms for Idleness

Antonyms for Idleness

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