idler

Plural: idlers

Noun

• A person who is habitually lazy or avoids work.
• person who does no work
• One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
• One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
• Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch.
• A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power through its own axle, but forms part of a gear train, supports a moving belt, etc.

Adjective

• not in action or at work

Adjective Satellite

• without a basis in reason or fact
• not in active use
• silly or trivial
• lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
• not yielding a return
• not having a job

Adj

• comparative form of idle: more idle

Examples

• No idler wins at Scrabble; consistent word-finding and strategy are essential.

Synonyms

baseless, bum, dead, do-nothing, groundless, idle, jobless, layabout, light, loafer, loose, out of work, unfounded, unused, unwarranted, wild, couch potato, dawdler, deadbeat, do-naught, dogfucker, dosser, faineant, flaneur, footler, get-nothing, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, idleton, laggard, lallygag, lazy ass, lazy louse, lazybones, lidderon, lie-abed, loiter-sack, lollygagger, lounge lizard, lounger, morepork, poop, ragabash, shirker, slacker, slow belly, slug-a-bed, slugabed, slugabug, sluggabed, sluggard, sofa spud, tarrier, truant

Antonyms

busy, achiever, doer, dynamo, go-getter, overachiever

Related Words

bumpkin, lazy, scrounger, shirk, troublemaker, vagabond, videophilia

Anagrams of idler