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# idler

«idler» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who does not like to work and wastes time** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (idlers); also the comparative of idle (idle, idler, idlest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who does not like to work and wastes time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idler/#m1)

2) (as comparative) More lazy: «the idler he became». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idler/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a lazy character who does nothing useful and comes to a bad end

### examples

- The idler lay in the sun all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idler/#x1)
- Our class idler never finished his sums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idler/#x2)
- The older he grew, the idler he became. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idler/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «idler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.