idly

The word “idly” has 2 syllables: id-ly

It's pronounced as /ˈaɪdli/


What is synonym and antonym for idly?

In the thesaurus, “idly” has 7 synonyms and 10 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for idly along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for idly

  • inactively
  • leisurely
  • lifelessly
  • nonchalantly
  • slackly
  • sleepily
  • slowly

Antonyms for idly

  • actively
  • assiduously
  • busily
  • diligently
  • energetically
  • indefatigably
  • industriously
  • laboriously
  • tirelessly
  • vigorously

Meanings of idly

  • adverb
    1. In an idle manner.
    2. Without specific purpose, intent or effort.

Example Sentences

  • Sarah sat idly by the window, lost in thought.
  • The cat stretched idly in the sunbeam, enjoying the warmth.
  • He flipped idly through the pages of the magazine, not really reading.
  • The old man watched idly as the children played in the park.
  • Despite having tasks to complete, he found himself staring idly at the computer screen.

On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to idly, such as: actively, assiduously, busily, diligently, energetically, inactively, indefatigably.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • ASAP
  • a mile a minute
  • a move on
  • able
  • abrupt
  • abruptly
  • accelerated
  • accurate
  • active
  • acute
  • adept
  • adroit
  • agile
  • alacritous
  • alert
  • alive
  • all there
  • animate
  • animated
  • apace
  • apt
  • astute
  • at full throttle
  • at full tilt
  • at speed
  • belly
  • big
  • blistering
  • blood
  • bosom
  • brainy
  • breakneck
  • breast
  • breathing
  • breathless
  • breathtaking
  • brief
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • briskly
  • brooding
  • by leaps and bounds
  • canny
  • capable
  • caught
  • cerebral
  • childbearing
  • chop-chop
  • clear
  • clever
  • competent
  • conceiving
  • conscience
  • core
  • crafty
  • creative
  • cunning
  • current
  • cursory
  • curt
  • deft
  • delicate
  • dexterous
  • discerning
  • dizzy
  • double-quick
  • double-time
  • dynamic
  • eager
  • educated
  • effective
  • effectual
  • enceinte
  • energetic
  • energetically
  • erudite
  • exceptional
  • existent
  • existing
  • expectant
  • expecting
  • expeditious
  • expeditive
  • express
  • extant
  • fast
  • fine
  • fleet
  • fleet-footed
  • fleetly
  • flying
  • foxy
  • full tilt
  • galloping
  • genial
  • gestational
  • going
  • gone
  • good
  • gravid
  • gut
  • hair-trigger
  • harefooted
  • hastened
  • hastily
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heady
  • heart
  • heartstrings
  • heavy
  • hell-for-leather
  • high-speed
  • highbrow
  • hit-and-run
  • hot
  • hurried
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immediate
  • immediately
  • impatient
  • impetuous
  • impetuously
  • impregnated
  • impulsively
  • in a hurry
  • in short order
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • inner space
  • inside
  • insightful
  • instant
  • instantaneous
  • intelligent
  • inventive
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • lickety-split
  • lightning
  • like a shot
  • like gangbusters
  • like wildfire
  • literate
  • live
  • lively
  • living
  • logical
  • mercurial
  • mind
  • move it
  • nimble
  • nimble-witted
  • nippy
  • on the ball
  • on the double
  • oversensitive
  • parturient
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfunctory
  • perspicacious
  • piercing
  • posthaste
  • precise
  • pregnant
  • prenatal
  • presto
  • prevailing
  • prompt
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • prudent
  • quick on the draw
  • quick on the trigger
  • quick on the uptake
  • quick-witted
  • quickened
  • quickly
  • rapid
  • rapid-fire
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • rational
  • rattling
  • readily
  • ready
  • ready-witted
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • recklessly
  • resourceful
  • responsive
  • resurrected
  • rush
  • rushed
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • slick
  • smart
  • smart as a whip
  • snappily
  • snappy
  • soon
  • soul
  • sound
  • speedily
  • speedy
  • spirited
  • split-second
  • splitting
  • sprightly
  • spry
  • strenuous
  • strong
  • subtle
  • sudden
  • suddenly
  • summary
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • surviving
  • swift
  • swiftly
  • the lead out
  • thriving
  • trained
  • ultrafast
  • ultrarapid
  • ultrasmart
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • vigorously
  • vital
  • vivacious
  • well-read
  • whirlwind
  • whiz
  • willing
  • wily
  • winged
  • wired
  • wise
  • with child
  • with young
  • zippy

wantonly

  • aboveboard
  • affluently
  • agitatedly
  • aimlessly
  • amok
  • amuck
  • artlessly
  • berserk
  • berserkly
  • blatantly
  • brazenly
  • candidly
  • chaotically
  • comfortably
  • confusedly
  • crazily
  • desperately
  • expensively
  • extravagantly
  • fatly
  • feverishly
  • fine
  • flagrantly
  • forthrightly
  • frankly
  • frantically
  • frenetically
  • frenziedly
  • fully
  • grandiosely
  • grandly
  • haphazard
  • haphazardly
  • harum-scarum
  • haywire
  • hectically
  • heedlessly
  • helter-skelter
  • high
  • hit or miss
  • honestly
  • hotheadedly
  • immoderately
  • imposingly
  • impressively
  • in broad daylight
  • in full view
  • in public
  • in the open
  • indulgently
  • ingenuously
  • intemperately
  • large
  • lavishly
  • luxuriously
  • madly
  • magnificently
  • naively
  • naturally
  • opulently
  • ostentatiously
  • palatially
  • pell-mell
  • plainly
  • plushly
  • pompously
  • pretentiously
  • prodigally
  • publicly
  • readily
  • recklessly
  • richly
  • riotously
  • shamelessly
  • simply
  • skittishly
  • splendidly
  • straight
  • sumptuously
  • topsy-turvy
  • tumultuously
  • turbulently
  • unabashedly
  • unashamedly
  • uncontrollably
  • unhesitatingly
  • unreservedly
  • warts and all
  • wastefully
  • wealthily
  • wild
  • wildly
  • willingly
  • without pretense
  • without reserve

tamely

  • calmly
  • collectedly
  • composedly
  • coolly
  • cooly
  • imperturbably
  • meekly
  • methodically
  • mildly
  • orderly
  • passively
  • peacefully
  • placidly
  • self-composedly
  • self-possessedly
  • serenely
  • systematically
  • unconcernedly

kindly

  • a bit
  • a little
  • a mite
  • a tad
  • a touch
  • acceptably
  • advantageous
  • advisable
  • affable
  • affectionately
  • after a sort
  • agreeably
  • altruistic
  • ameliorative
  • amelioratory
  • amicable
  • anticruelty
  • attentive
  • auspicious
  • benefic
  • beneficent
  • beneficial
  • benevolent
  • benevolently
  • benign
  • benignant
  • benignly
  • bettering
  • brotherly
  • carefully
  • charitable
  • charitably
  • chivalrously
  • clement
  • companionable
  • compassionate
  • compassionately
  • comradely
  • considerate
  • considerately
  • constructive
  • cool
  • cordial
  • cordially
  • courteously
  • cruelty-free
  • decently
  • decorously
  • deferentially
  • delicately
  • desirable
  • discreetly
  • enough
  • excusably
  • fairly
  • favorable
  • forbearing
  • forgiving
  • freehanded
  • friendly
  • gainful
  • gallantly
  • generous
  • generously
  • genial
  • genially
  • gentle
  • good
  • good-hearted
  • good-natured
  • good-naturedly
  • good-tempered
  • gracious
  • graciously
  • gratifying
  • greathearted
  • half
  • halfway
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • hearty
  • heedfully
  • helpful
  • helpfully
  • humane
  • humanely
  • humanitarian
  • incompletely
  • judiciously
  • justifiably
  • kind
  • kind of
  • kindhearted
  • kindheartedly
  • lenient
  • liberal
  • like
  • little
  • lucrative
  • magnanimous
  • mellow
  • merciful
  • mild
  • moderately
  • more or less
  • munificent
  • negligibly
  • neighborly
  • nice
  • nicely
  • noble
  • nominally
  • of a sort
  • of sorts
  • openhearted
  • part
  • partially
  • partly
  • partway
  • passably
  • patient
  • philanthropic
  • philanthropical
  • pitying
  • pleasant
  • pleasantly
  • polite
  • politely
  • pretty
  • profitable
  • promising
  • propitious
  • prudently
  • quite
  • rather
  • reasonably
  • relatively
  • remunerative
  • respectfully
  • rewarding
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salutiferous
  • satisfying
  • selfless
  • sensibly
  • slightly
  • sociable
  • soft
  • softhearted
  • solicitous
  • solicitously
  • something
  • somewhat
  • sort of
  • supportive
  • sweet
  • sweetly
  • sympathetic
  • sympathetically
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • tenderly
  • thoughtful
  • thoughtfully
  • to a degree
  • tolerably
  • tolerant
  • tolerantly
  • understanding
  • understandingly
  • unselfish
  • unsparing
  • vaguely
  • validly
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • well
  • wholesome
  • wisely

bang

  • KO
  • PDQ
  • abruptly
  • amusement
  • anon
  • apace
  • arousal
  • at once
  • away
  • bar
  • bash
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • batter
  • battering
  • bean
  • beat
  • beating
  • belt
  • biff
  • blare
  • blast
  • blow
  • bludgeon
  • bludgeoning
  • bob
  • body blow
  • bolt
  • bonk
  • boom
  • boot
  • bop
  • bounce
  • box
  • brain
  • briskly
  • brush
  • buffet
  • bulldoze
  • bump
  • bung
  • bunt
  • burst
  • bust
  • butt
  • buzz
  • cane
  • carom
  • chain
  • charge
  • chop
  • clamor
  • clang
  • clangor
  • clank
  • clap
  • clash
  • clatter
  • clip
  • clobber
  • clobbering
  • clock
  • close
  • clout
  • club
  • clunk
  • collide
  • conk
  • contact
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • crack
  • crash
  • cream
  • cruncher
  • cudgel
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • dab
  • deck
  • delectation
  • delight
  • detonate
  • detonation
  • directly
  • discharge
  • diversion
  • douse
  • drub
  • drubbing
  • drum
  • dump
  • echo
  • electrification
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • exactly
  • excitement
  • exhilaration
  • explode
  • fast
  • fasten
  • fell
  • fillip
  • flail
  • fleetly
  • flick
  • flog
  • flogging
  • floor
  • forthwith
  • freely
  • frisson
  • full tilt
  • fun
  • glance
  • graze
  • hack
  • hammer
  • hammering
  • hand
  • hang one on
  • hard
  • hastily
  • haymaker
  • head-on
  • headlong
  • high
  • hit
  • hook
  • howl
  • hubbub
  • hue and cry
  • hullabaloo
  • immediately
  • impact
  • impetuously
  • impinge
  • impulsively
  • in no time
  • incontinently
  • instantaneously
  • instanter
  • instantly
  • intoxication
  • jab
  • jollies
  • jolt
  • jostle
  • joy
  • kayo
  • kick
  • kiss
  • knee
  • knock
  • knock down
  • knockdown
  • knockout
  • lace
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lambasting
  • land
  • larrup
  • lash
  • latch
  • left
  • level
  • lick
  • licking
  • lift
  • lock
  • make noise
  • mangle
  • maul
  • momentarily
  • muscle
  • nail
  • noisily
  • now
  • nudge
  • off the bat
  • on a dime
  • on the double
  • on the spot
  • one-two
  • opportunely
  • outcry
  • paste
  • pasting
  • peal
  • pelt
  • pepper
  • pick
  • pleasant feeling
  • pleasure
  • plumb
  • plump
  • poke
  • pommel
  • pop
  • posthaste
  • pound
  • pounding
  • precisely
  • presently
  • press
  • presto
  • prod
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • pummel
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • punctually
  • push
  • quick
  • quickly
  • rabbit punch
  • rabbit-punch
  • ram
  • rap
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • rattle
  • readily
  • rebound
  • recklessly
  • report
  • resound
  • ricochet
  • right
  • right away
  • right now
  • right off
  • right-hander
  • roar
  • roll
  • rough
  • roundhouse
  • rumble
  • rush
  • salvo
  • sap
  • scrape
  • scuff
  • seal
  • seasonably
  • secure
  • shave
  • shiver
  • shock
  • shortly
  • shot
  • shove
  • shut
  • sidewinder
  • skim
  • skip
  • skull
  • slam
  • slap
  • slash
  • sledge
  • sledgehammer
  • slog
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smite
  • snap
  • snappily
  • sock
  • soon
  • sound
  • spank
  • spear
  • speedily
  • stab
  • stamp
  • stinger
  • stop
  • straight
  • straight off
  • straightaway
  • straightway
  • strike
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • suddenly
  • surprise
  • surprize
  • swat
  • sweep
  • swift
  • swiftly
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • tag
  • tap
  • thrash
  • thrashing
  • thrill
  • thud
  • thump
  • thunder
  • thunderclap
  • thunk
  • thwack
  • titillation
  • touch
  • treat
  • tumult
  • unexpectedly
  • uppercut
  • uproar
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whump
  • wow
  • zap

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