bone-idle

1. 1.

   constitutionally lazy or idle

   Synonymsbone-lazy

   Similaridle

   colloquialism

Questions about bone-idle

What does bone-idle mean?

bone-idle means "constitutionally lazy or idle".

How many syllables are in bone-idle?

bone-idle has 3 syllables and divides as bo-ne-i-dle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bone-idle?

Close synonyms include bone-lazy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.