Idleness Synonyms and Antonyms

Disinclination to activity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. indolence
  2. slowness
  3. inaction
  4. inactivity
  5. inertness
  6. faineance
  7. inoperativeness
  8. slothfulness
  9. stagnation

Words Related to Idleness

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Idleness Sentence Examples

  • You have spent your life in idleness.

  • She had a warlike spirit that preferred trouble to idleness.

  • All had to live in absolute poverty, chastity and idleness.

  • Moreover, Dr Gilly's book (A Visit to the Valleys of Piedmont), chancing to fall into the hands of an officer who had lost his leg at Waterloo, Colonel Beckwith, suggested an object for the energies of one who was 10th at the age of twenty-six to sink into enforced idleness.

  • The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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