Idle and Struggling

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Idle verb - To spend time doing nothing.

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Struggling is an antonym for idle.

Nearby Words: idled, idleness, idler, idling, idly

Struggling adjective - Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity.

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Idle is an antonym for struggling in topics: fight, labor.

Nearby Words: struggle, struggled

He's seen as a rather poor and struggling teenaged nation (while his younger sister Belgium is a Child Prodigy businesswoman), then he's seen under Spain's wing (that he's not too happy about), and later he has become quite the overseas empire... and a stoic, penny-pinching Non-Idle Rich.

Source: Rags to Riches

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Struggling and Idle. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/idle/struggling

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