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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taking rest |
| Synonyms: | asleep, at ease, at rest, comfortable, crashed, dozing, dreaming, drowsing, lounging, lying down, napping, quiet, recessing, reclining, relaxing, reposing, sleeping, snoozing, stretched out, taking a break, taking it easy, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | resting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | abed, incumbent, lying, nonactive, reclining, repose, static, upon |
| Antonyms: | active |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be calm; sleep |
| Synonyms: | be at ease, be comfortable, breathe, compose oneself, doze, dream, drowse, ease off, ease up, idle, laze, lean, let down, let up, lie by, lie down, lie still, loaf, loll, lounge, nap, nod, put feet up, recline, refresh oneself, relax, repose, sit down, slack, slack off, slacken, slumber, snooze, spell, stretch out, take a break, take a nap, take five, take it easy, take life easy, take ten, take time out, unbend, unlax, unwind, wind down |
| Antonyms: | activate, be active, carry out, do, energize |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie, recline |
| Synonyms: | be quiet, be supported, lay, lean, lie still, loll, lounge, pause, prop, repose, roost, settle, sit, stand, stand still, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | move, stand, walk |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depend, hinge |
| Synonyms: | base, be based, be contingent, be dependent, be founded, be seated on, be supported, be upheld, bottom, count, establish, found, ground, hang, lie, predicate, rely, reside, stay, turn |
| Main Entry: | asleep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | catching some zzz's, comatose, conked, crashed, dormant, dozing, dreaming, flaked out, getting shut-eye, hibernating, in dreamland, in repose, inactive, inert, napping, on the kip, out cold, out like a light, out of it, out*, reposing, resting, sacked out, sleeping, slumbering, snoozing, snoring, somnolent, taking forty winks |
| Antonyms: | attentive, awake, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | dormant, idle, inert, neglected, quiescent, resting, slack, uncultivated, undeveloped, unplanted, unplowed, unproductive, unseeded, untilled, unused, vacant, virgin |
| Antonyms: | active, cultivated, developed, used |
| Main Entry: | idle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not used; out of action |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, asleep, barren, closed down, dead, deserted, down, dusty, empty, gathering dust, inactive, inert, jobless, laid-off, leisured, mothballed, motionless, on the bench, on the shelf, out of operation, out of work, passive, quiet, redundant, resting, rusty, sleepy, stationary, still, uncultivated, unemployed, unoccupied, untouched, unused, vacant, void, waste, workless |
| Notes: | idle means not in action or at work; idyll means a simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life - or a lighthearted carefree episode or experience; idyllic means excellent and delightful in all respects |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, employed, productive, used, working |
| Main Entry: | idle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lazy |
| Synonyms: | at rest, indolent, lackadaisical, resting, shiftless, slothful, sluggish, taking it easy |
| Notes: | idle means not in action or at work; idyll means a simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life - or a lighthearted carefree episode or experience; idyllic means excellent and delightful in all respects |
| Antonyms: | ambitious, busy, diligent, hustling, productive |
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