Doodle
verb
To draw or sketch something without thinking, often while doing something else.
She often doodles in her notebook during class.
Often appears as...
- doodle on a paper
- doodle in a notebook
noun
A simple drawing made absentmindedly.
His notebook is full of doodles.
Often appears as...
- notebook full of doodles
- doodles on the margin
verb
To waste time aimlessly.
He spent the whole afternoon doodling around.
Often appears as...
- doodling around
- doodling away time
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A foolish or silly person.
Stop acting like a doodle and get to work.
Often appears as...
- acting like a doodle
- don't be a doodle
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To draw or sketch something without thinking, often while doing something else.
She often doodles in her notebook during class.
Often appears as...
- doodle on a paper
- doodle in a notebook
noun
A simple drawing made absentmindedly.
His notebook is full of doodles.
Often appears as...
- notebook full of doodles
- doodles on the margin
verb
To waste time aimlessly.
He spent the whole afternoon doodling around.
Often appears as...
- doodling around
- doodling away time
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A foolish or silly person.
Stop acting like a doodle and get to work.
Often appears as...
- acting like a doodle
- don't be a doodle
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Subconscious Drawing
Doodling can be a way to express thoughts or feelings you're not fully aware of.
While on the phone, she started doodling hearts.
Pro Tip 2/2Multitasking Indicator
People often doodle when their minds are occupied with other tasks, especially during long meetings or lectures.
His meeting notes were filled with doodles.
Pro Tip 1/2Subconscious Drawing
Doodling can be a way to express thoughts or feelings you're not fully aware of.
While on the phone, she started doodling hearts.
Pro Tip 2/2Multitasking Indicator
People often doodle when their minds are occupied with other tasks, especially during long meetings or lectures.
His meeting notes were filled with doodles.
Pro Tip 1/2Subconscious Drawing
Doodling can be a way to express thoughts or feelings you're not fully aware of.
While on the phone, she started doodling hearts.
Pro Tip 2/2Multitasking Indicator
People often doodle when their minds are occupied with other tasks, especially during long meetings or lectures.
His meeting notes were filled with doodles.
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Paper towns and why...
So you're me, and you're in math class yet again, because they make you go every single day. And you're learning about, I don't know, the sums of infinite series. That's a high school topic, right? Which is odd, because it's a cool topic, but they somehow manage to ruin it anyway. So I guess that's why they allow infinite series in the curriculum. So, in a quite understandable need for distraction, you're doodling
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Doodlers, unite! - Sunni...
doodling in classrooms and they have bosses who scold them for doodling in the boardroom there is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something and unfortunately the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene you know of an important person at a
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
cemented over time whereas humans I mean whereas children approach the world sort of fresh and they're ready to make more interesting connections that's why we say that children are more creative so add rudl is is a term for what is basically a drawing and a doodle together and what we ask people to do is
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Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...
so I actually had to ask you to draw little doodles for me to actually explain that. How was that for you? How was that experience?" "I mean, it was pretty difficult for me to visualize, too, so, it was interesting. Doing the storyboard actually helped me clarify in my head, like, how it actually works
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Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...
There is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something. And unfortunately, the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene -- of an important person at a confirmation hearing and the like --
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The hidden history of...
things that we did was we started to look at a doodle for her and so you can see her up there in the top writing all the way to iTunes cuz in this piece she talks about programmability of music so we love Ada she's our founder and that got me thinking about the lost history
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Why are these 32 symbols...
That is a very small number. Now, if these were random doodles or decorations, we would expect to see a lot more variation, but instead what we find are the same signs repeating across both space and time. Some signs start out strong, before losing popularity and vanishing,
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Before Avatar ... a...
And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw alien creatures, alien worlds, robots, spaceships, all that stuff. I was endlessly getting busted in math class doodling behind the textbook. That was -- the creativity
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Inside a cartoonist's...
a picture, a drawing, a doodle. These ideas come from a variety of places. Cartoonists might find the idea from observing life, reading a newspaper, trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said
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Gever Tulley teaches...
We start from doodles and sketches. And sometimes we make real plans. And sometimes we just start building. Building is at the heart of the hands on, deeply immersed
Video examples
Paper towns and why...
So you're me, and you're in math class yet again, because they make you go every single day. And you're learning about, I don't know, the sums of infinite series. That's a high school topic, right? Which is odd, because it's a cool topic, but they somehow manage to ruin it anyway. So I guess that's why they allow infinite series in the curriculum. So, in a quite understandable need for distraction, you're doodling
Video examples
Doodlers, unite! - Sunni...
doodling in classrooms and they have bosses who scold them for doodling in the boardroom there is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something and unfortunately the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene you know of an important person at a
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
cemented over time whereas humans I mean whereas children approach the world sort of fresh and they're ready to make more interesting connections that's why we say that children are more creative so add rudl is is a term for what is basically a drawing and a doodle together and what we ask people to do is
Video examples
Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...
so I actually had to ask you to draw little doodles for me to actually explain that. How was that for you? How was that experience?" "I mean, it was pretty difficult for me to visualize, too, so, it was interesting. Doing the storyboard actually helped me clarify in my head, like, how it actually works
Video examples
Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...
There is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something. And unfortunately, the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene -- of an important person at a confirmation hearing and the like --
Video examples
The hidden history of...
things that we did was we started to look at a doodle for her and so you can see her up there in the top writing all the way to iTunes cuz in this piece she talks about programmability of music so we love Ada she's our founder and that got me thinking about the lost history
Video examples
Why are these 32 symbols...
That is a very small number. Now, if these were random doodles or decorations, we would expect to see a lot more variation, but instead what we find are the same signs repeating across both space and time. Some signs start out strong, before losing popularity and vanishing,
Video examples
Before Avatar ... a...
And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw alien creatures, alien worlds, robots, spaceships, all that stuff. I was endlessly getting busted in math class doodling behind the textbook. That was -- the creativity
Video examples
Inside a cartoonist's...
a picture, a drawing, a doodle. These ideas come from a variety of places. Cartoonists might find the idea from observing life, reading a newspaper, trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said
Video examples
Gever Tulley teaches...
We start from doodles and sketches. And sometimes we make real plans. And sometimes we just start building. Building is at the heart of the hands on, deeply immersed
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.
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John Hurt
British Actor
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.
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Tom Wujec
Canadian Author
We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.
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Devdutt Pattanaik
Indian Author
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
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Jim Root
American Musician
I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.
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Freddie Highmore
English Actor
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.
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Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
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Ian McShane
English Actor
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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Dascha Polanco
Dominican Actress
I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.
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Jonathan Knight
American Musician
I was always doodling house sketches.
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.
Quote examples
John Hurt
British Actor
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.
Quote examples
Tom Wujec
Canadian Author
We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.
Quote examples
Devdutt Pattanaik
Indian Author
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
Quote examples
Jim Root
American Musician
I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.
Quote examples
Freddie Highmore
English Actor
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.
Quote examples
Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
Quote examples
Ian McShane
English Actor
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
Quote examples
Dascha Polanco
Dominican Actress
I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.
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Jonathan Knight
American Musician
I was always doodling house sketches.
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