overidle

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adjective

Excessively idle.

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Meanings

adjectiveoveridle (comparative more overidle, superlative most overidle)

comparative more overidle · superlative most overidle

  1. Excessively idle.

    The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother.

    2008, Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought (page 342)

Origin

From over- + idle.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

overidle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overidle

MLA

“overidle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overidle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overidle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overidle.

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