idle pulley idler pulley idle wheel | a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it |
wind malarkey malarky idle words jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
prate prattle idle talk blether chin music | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
sympathy fellow feeling | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
boyfriend fellow beau swain young man | a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman, if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked |
chap fellow feller fella lad gent blighter cuss bloke | a boy or man, that chap is your host, there's a fellow at the door, he's a likable cuss, he's a good bloke |
colleague confrere fellow | a person who is member of one's class or profession, the surgeon consulted his colleagues, he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers |
colleague co-worker fellow worker workfellow | an associate that one works with |
companion comrade fellow familiar associate | a friend who is frequently in the company of another, drinking companions, comrades in arms |
companion fellow traveler fellow traveller | a traveler who accompanies you |
fellow dude buster | an informal form of address for a man, Say, fellow, what are you doing?, Hey buster, what's up? |
fellow | a member of a learned society, he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association |
fellow traveler fellow traveller | a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party) |
kook odd fellow odd fish queer bird queer duck odd man out d | someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group |
member fellow member | one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization), only members will be admitted, a member of the faculty, she was introduced to all the members of his family |
schoolmate classmate schoolfellow class fellow | an acquaintance that you go to school with |
teaching fellow | a graduate student with teaching responsibilities |
mate fellow | one of a pair, he lost the mate to his shoe, one eye was blue but its fellow was brown |
idle | the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling, the car engine was running at idle |
idle tick over | run disconnected or idle, the engine is idling |
idle laze slug stagnate | be idle, exist in a changeless situation, The old man sat and stagnated on his porch, He slugged in bed all morning |
idle unused | not in active use, the machinery sat idle during the strike, idle hands |
idle | not in action or at work, an idle laborer, idle drifters, the idle rich, an idle mind |
bone-idle bone-lazy | constitutionally lazy or idle |
idle jobless out of work | not having a job, idle carpenters, jobless transients, many people in the area were out of work |
comradely hail-fellow hail-fellow-well-met | heartily friendly and congenial |
dead idle | not yielding a return, dead capital, idle funds |
idle loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility, idle talk, a loose tongue |
idle light | silly or trivial, idle pleasure, light banter, light idle chatter |
baseless groundless idle unfounded unwarranted wild | without a basis in reason or fact, baseless gossip, the allegations proved groundless, idle fears, unfounded suspicions, unwarranted jealousy |