What are some opposite words for idler?
Antonyms for idleridler
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idlernoun
idlernoun
One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction.
idlernoun
One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
idlernoun
Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch
idlernoun
A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bumnoun
person who does no work
"a lazy bum"
Synonyms:
fanny, tail, seat, crumb, butt, hobo, skunk, rear end, scum bag, can, nates, bottom, git, layabout, fundament, stinker, posterior, buttocks, do-nothing, puke, stern, stinkpot, backside, bum, dirty dog, buns, hindquarters, tail end, derriere, tooshie, so-and-so, hind end, rotter, rump, lowlife, keister, tramp, ass, prat, arse, rear, tush, loafer, rat, behind
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use idler in a sentence?
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903:
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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