Library / English Dictionary

LOAFING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no employment

Synonyms:

idleness; idling; loafing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("loafing" is a kind of...):

inactivity (being inactive; being less active)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loafing"):

dolce far niente (carefree idleness)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb loaf

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 Context examples: 

It was a photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers loafing in an archway through which were visible a host of spires. There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger—with a cricket bat in his hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)