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Definition: At Leisure |
At LeisureAdjective1. Idle; between jobs; (euphemism for `unemployed'). Adverb1. 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 LeisureSynonyms: at leisure(p) (adj), leisurely (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: At Leisure |
| English words defined with "at leisure": At liberty ♦ cruise ♦ Disengaged ♦ Leisurably. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "at leisure": Jedwood Justice ♦ Paridel. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Repent at Leisure (1941) Heroes at Leisure (1939) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
Expressions using "at leisure": be at leisure ♦ do smth. at leisure. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) ocioso (dawdler, idle, idler, inactive, leisured, leisurely, unoccupied, useless). (various references) 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) у вільний час. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | feriatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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