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leisured

leisured adjective: having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.

Adjective

leisured (comparative more leisured, superlative most leisured)

  1. Having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.
    • The iron and coal valleys of the Vermissa district were no resorts for the leisured or the cultured. Everywhere there were stern signs of the crudest battle of life, the rude work to be done, and the rude, strong workers who did it.1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Man”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 27 February 1915, →OCLC, part II (The...
    • The very world for which they were designed is no longer imaginable. Rich, stable, be-leisured, and secure, it was shattered by the first world war.1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 56
  2. Leisurely, filled with leisure.
    • And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers
      That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought,
      By envy sore distraught,
      Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers,
      Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20
    • "All right," said Basil, rising also and seating himself in a leisured way in an armchair. "Don't hurry for us," he said, glancing round at the litter of the room, "we have all the illustrated papers."1904 July 9 and 16, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady”, in The Club of Queer Trades, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, published April 1905...

Examples of leisured in a sentence

  • The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time.
  • They had become a superior, leisured caste.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:
  • It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in leisured, educated people.2014 March 28, Robin Lane Fox, “The rich heritage of British working-class gardens”, in Financial Times:
  • Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:
  • The big liners were killed, of course, by the jet plane, a device that condensed the leisured misery of a five-day crossing into seven hours of concentrated nullity or wretchedness.1972 January 3, “Leviathans”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2013:

Forms of leisured

comparativemore leisured
superlativemost leisured

Origin of leisured

From leisure + -ed.

Words formed from leisured

Questions about leisured

What does leisured mean?
Leisured means having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.
How do you use leisured in a sentence?
The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time.
What part of speech is leisured?
Leisured is an adjective.

Words near leisured in the dictionary

  1. leisure classes
  2. leisure sickness
  3. leisure suit
  4. leisure suits
  5. leisure time
  6. leisured
  7. leisureful
  8. leisureless
  9. leisurelessness
  10. leisurelier
  11. leisurelily

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