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time-wasting
adjective as in dilatory
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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