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Definition: Leisured |
LeisuredAdjective1. Free from duties or responsibilities; "he writes in his leisure hours"; "life as it ought to be for the leisure classes"- J.J.Chapman; "even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men"- Ida Craven. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leisured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Synonym: LeisuredSynonym: leisure(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Greying Leisured Affluent Marrieds (social sciences). |
Crosswords: Leisured |
| English words defined with "leisured": leisure. (references) |
| "Leisured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Leisured" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.44% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "leisured": the leisured classes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "leisured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i ngeshëm (at a loose end, downbeat, idle, unoccupied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свободен от работа, с много свободно време. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ve volném èase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui a beaucoup de loisirs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbeschäftigt (free, idle, unemployed, unemployedly, unengaged, unoccupied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αργόσχολοσ (gad about, idle, loafer, loiterer, play boy, playboy, unoccupied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tétlen (be inactive, idle, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, inoperative, passive, quiescent, sluggish, torpid, unemployed, vacuous), munka nélkül jól élő, kényelmes (comfortable, comfy, commodious, convenient, cosh, cosy, cozy, cushy, easy going, handy, leisurely, nonchalant), henyélő (lazy, lounger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | libero (available, clear, disengaged, empty, free, idle, loose, open, spare, unattached, unchecked, unconstrained, unrestricted, vacant), comodo (comfort, comfortable, comfy, convenience, convenient, cosiest, cosy, cozy, cushy, ease, easiness, easy, handy, leisure, leisurely, snug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 有閑 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうか" (bravery, distress, evening paper, gallantry, heroism, quiet and secluded, sorrow, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | as corsoie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eisuredlay tempo de lazer (leisure time, time off), desocupado (disengaged, empty, idle, leisurely, off, otiose, unappropriated, unoccupied, vacant). (various references) liber (at a loose end, at large, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, loose, loosely, naked, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void), tihnit (comfortable, easeful, leisurely, patriarchal, quiet, recumbent, reposeful). (various references) досужий (leisurely). (various references) slobodan (footloose, free, indipendent, leisure, liberal, off, open, promiscuous, sightly, spare, through, unconstrained), dokon (leisure), besposlen (idle, unemployed). (various references) ocioso (at leisure, dawdler, idle, idler, inactive, leisurely, unoccupied, useless), de descanso. (various references) ledig (airy, casual, disengaged, easy, facile, flowing, fluent, fluid, free, glib, idle, leisurely, off duty, off-hour, open, out, Pat, spare, unoccupied, vacant, void). (various references) sosyete (high society, polite society, society, the people of quality), boş zamanı çok olan, çalışmayan (at rest, idle, inactive, inoperative). (various references) неквапливий (canny, deliberate, dilatory, easy, plodding, slow, unhurried), дозвільний (leisurable, otiose). (various references) nh n hạ, có nhiều thì giờ rỗi rãi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Leisured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Keiserud, Keisure, leasure, leisere, leislure, leisoure, leissure, leisures, leizure, lensure, lesuire, lesure, liesure, lisure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "leisured" (pronounced 'Lei"sured'): tonsured, Tressured. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: duelers, eluders, leisure, residue, resiled, ureides. | |
-2 letters: desire, diesel, dueler, ediles, eiders, elders, elides, eluder, eludes, idlers, leudes, lieder, relied, relies, reside, resile, reused, sedile, seidel, sidler, slider, ureide. | |
-3 letters: deers, deils, deles, delis, dirls, drees, dries, druse, duels, dulse, dures, edile, eider, elder, elide, elude, idler, idles, ileus, isled, leers, leuds, liers. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: underlies. | |
+2 letters: adulteries, hierodules, interludes, pulverised, resupplied, squirreled, surveilled, tellurides, underlines. | |
+3 letters: credulities, deleterious, delustering, derailleurs, desulfurize, displeasure, luridnesses, neutralised, outdelivers, outfielders, republished, secularised, secularized, squirrelled, supercoiled, undesirable. | |
+4 letters: cloudberries, destructible, desulfurized, desulfurizes, displeasures, disreputable, filibustered, overindulges, oversupplied, pridefulness, reduplicates, relinquished, rescheduling, restimulated, subepidermal, underbellies, underselling, undesirables, unsterilized. | |
+5 letters: boulevardiers, deleteriously, deliriousness, denaturalizes, denuclearizes, deregulations, destructively, desultoriness, disrespectful, harlequinades, incredulities, lepidopterous, prescheduling, reproducibles, skulduggeries, splendiferous, supercollider, undersupplies, underutilizes, undescribable, unfriendliest, universalized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 69 73 75 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .. ... ..- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01101001 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e i s u r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0069 0073 0075 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671758587847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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