DO NOTHING meaning: Remain inactive without any action - OneLook

Usually means: Remain inactive without any action.

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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word do nothing:

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do-nothing: Merriam-Webster
do-nothing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
do-nothing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
do-nothing: Vocabulary.com
Do-Nothing, Do-nothing, do-nothing: Wordnik
do-nothing: Wiktionary
do-nothing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
do-nothing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
do-nothing: Infoplease Dictionary
Do-nothing, do-nothing, do nothing: Dictionary.com
Do Nothing (disambiguation), Do Nothing (song), Do Nothing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Do-nothing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
do-nothing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
do-nothing: Rhymezone
Do-nothing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
do-nothing: FreeDictionary.org
do-nothing: Mnemonic Dictionary
do-nothing: TheFreeDictionary.com
do nothing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

do nothing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

do-nothing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (do nothing)

▸ verb: To not take any action; to fail to do or accomplish something.

Similar:

irresponsible, layabout, idler, loafer, bum, stand by, sit on, lie around, go nowhere fast, sit idly by, more...

Opposite:

act, take action, do something, make move

Phrases:

do nothing for, People Just Do Nothing, person who do nothing, to do nothing, rich person do nothing job, more...

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Similar:

irresponsible, layabout, idler, loafer, bum, stand by, sit on, lie around, go nowhere fast, sit idly by, more...

Opposite:

act, take action, do something, make move

Phrases:

do nothing for, People Just Do Nothing, person who do nothing, to do nothing, rich person do nothing job, sit back and do nothing, sit around and do nothing, do nothing about, one inclined to do nothing, more...

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