leisured

[ lee-zherd, lezh-erd ]

adjective

1. having leisure:

   the leisured classes.

2. characterized by leisure; leisurely; unhurried:

   the leisured manner of his walk.

ˈleisured

/ ˈlɛʒəd /

adjective

1. usually prenominal having much leisure, as through unearned wealth

   the leisured classes

2. unhurried or relaxed

   in a leisured manner

Other Words From

• un·leisured adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of leisured¹

First recorded in 1625–35; leisure + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Even before I left England, I had got tired of the ordinary leisured woman's life.

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She does not see the twelve and fourteen hour days of work in that rosy dream of good wages and leisured evenings in town.

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It was the education of an aristocratic leisured class who had not to earn their living.

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The smaller erotic collection in the locked bureau in the study presumably had companioned Sir Jacques' more leisured hours.

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The iron and coal valleys of the Vermissa district were no resorts for the leisured or the cultured.

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Related Words

• idle
• inactive
• jobless
• underemployed