Idling Synonyms and Antonyms

To cause to cease regular activity
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stopping
  2. immobilizing
Ostensibly employed, but wasting time
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. drifting
  2. lolling
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wiling
  2. wasting
  3. killing
Be idle; exist in a changeless situation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shirking
  2. loitering
  3. goofing
  4. stagnating
  5. loafing
  6. diddling
  7. lazing
  8. lounging
  9. slugging
  10. slacking
  11. bumming
Antonyms:
  1. working
  2. running
Having no employment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. idleness
  2. loafing

Words Related to Idling

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.

Related:

  1. resting
  2. continuing
  3. tick-over

Idling Sentence Examples

  • This process keeps the interferometer accurately aligned in real time, as the interferometer accurately aligned in real time, as the interferometer is scanning and also while it is idling between scans.

  • Here were eight cars idling in the restaurant's parking lot, and in the cars were thirty-odd people waiting to eat!

  • Stop-start hybrid cars run on regular gasoline when they are moving, but they operate off of stored power when they are idling.