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do-nothing

adj

Etymology

Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.

Definitions

  1. Doing nothing, not taking any action.

    • It became clear that a chronic do-nothing approach to the problem's management would no longer suffice.

  2. A lazy person.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for do-nothing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA