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At Leisure

Definition: At Leisure

At Leisure

Adjective

1. Idle; between jobs; (euphemism for `unemployed').

Adverb

1. In an unhurried way or at one's convenience; "read the manual at your leisure"; "he traveled leisurely".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: At Leisure

Synonyms: at leisure(p) (adj), leisurely (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: At Leisure

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inactivity

Adverb: inactively; Adjective: at leisure.

Leisure

Adjective: leisure, leisurely; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: At Leisure

English words defined with "at leisure": At libertycruiseDisengagedLeisurably. (references)
Specialty definitions using "at leisure": Jedwood JusticeParidel. (references)

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Modern Usage: At Leisure

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Repent at Leisure (1941)

Heroes at Leisure (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: At Leisure

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District of Columbia. White officers of 4th U.S. Colored Infantry at leisure, Fort Slocum. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington, D.C. Drum Corps of 10th Veteran Reserve Corps at leisure. Credit: Library of Congress.

Petersburg, Va. General view of camp of Oneida, N.Y., Independent Cavalry Company at Army headquarters, with men at leisure. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: At Leisure

AuthorQuotation

Scipio Africanus

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: At Leisure

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Sometimes, when at leisure, he amused himself all day in the woods with a pocket pistol, firing salutes to himself at regular intervals as he walked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: At Leisure

Expressions using "at leisure": be at leisure do smth. at leisure. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: At Leisure

Language Translations for "at leisure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

joutilas (at liberty, free, inactive, unoccupied), jouten ollessa. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

később (in after years, later, posteriorly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

のろけ話 (carefree, leisure, slowly, sluggishly, speaking fondly of, tranquility). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

の"びり (carefree). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay eisurelay

   

Romanian

  

liber (at a loose end, at large, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loose, loosely, naked, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void), în voie, în tihnã (snug). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ocioso (dawdler, idle, idler, inactive, leisured, leisurely, unoccupied, useless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

acele etmeden (leisurely), yavaş yavaş (bit by bit, by inches, by slow degrees, by stages, inch by inch, leisurely, little by little, slowly). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

у вільний час. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: At Leisure

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

feriatis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: At Leisure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: ateliers, earliest, leariest, realties, resalute, uralites.

-2 letters: aeriest, atelier, austere, elaters, eluates, estrual, leister, leisure, lustier, realest, realise, realist, relates, reslate, retails, retiles, rituals, ruliest, rutiles, saltier, saltire, saluter, seriate, slatier, stealer, sterile, tailers, uralite.

-3 letters: aeries, airest, alerts, alters, aretes, ariels, artels, aurist, easier, easter, eaters, elater, elates, elites, eluate, elutes, estral.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: adulteries, elutriates, neutralise, tutelaries.

 

+2 letters: electuaries, intersexual, legislature, literatures, neutralised, neutralises, neutralizes, quarterlies, restimulate, reticulates, subliterate, superlative, unrealities.

 

+3 letters: antipleasure, disreputable, equilibrates, laureateship, legislatures, litterateurs, metallurgies, neutralities, neutralizers, recirculates, recultivates, reduplicates, regularities, reinoculates, relubricates, reluctancies, restimulated, restimulates, secularities, superlatives, ultraprecise.

 

+4 letters: antipleasures, cellularities, denaturalizes, deregulations, inoperculates, intersexually, laureateships, lucrativeness, metalliferous, overstimulate, peculiarities, rearticulates, recapitulates, reevaluations, reregulations, reusabilities, specularities, subliteracies, subliterature, superlatively, temerariously, unassertively, unearthliness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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