Paragon vs Idle - What's the difference?
paragon | idle |
A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
* Shakespeare
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(obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) Comparison; competition.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
(typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.
To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
To compare with; to equal; to rival.
* Glover
To serve as a model for; to surpass.
* Shakespeare
To be equal; to hold comparison.
(lb) Empty, vacant.
Not turned to appropriate use; not occupied.
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Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
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*:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.
Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle , brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”
Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
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(lb) Light-headed; foolish.
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To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
* 1939 , Joan Evans, Chateaubriand (page 32)
Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
In obsolete terms the difference between paragon and idle
is that paragon is comparison; competition while idle is light-headed; foolish.As verbs the difference between paragon and idle
is that paragon is to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with while idle is to spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.As a noun paragon
is a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.As an adjective idle is
empty, vacant.paragon
English
(wikipedia paragon)Noun
(en noun)- In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
- Man, the paragon of animals!
- The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
- Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
- (Spenser)
- good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- (Spenser)
- In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.
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English
(wikipedia idle)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* idle hands are the devil's workshop * idle pulley * idle wheelSynonyms
* See alsoVerb
(idl)- to idle in an IRC channel
- He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo