Leisurely

Definitions: Leisurely

Leisurely

Adjective

1. Not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace".

Adverb

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

Date "leisurely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Leisurely

Synonyms: easy (adj), easygoing (adj), at leisure (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lateness	Slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure; ex post facto; sine die.
Leisure	Adjective: leisure, leisurely; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.
Slowness	Adverb: slowly; Adjective: leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis.
	Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Leisurely

English words defined with "leisurely": adagio, amble, ambler, At leisure ♦ easy, easygoing ♦ Leisurable, leisureliness, lingeringly ♦ mosey ♦ perambulation, promenade, protractedly ♦ ramble ♦ saunter, saunterer, stroll, stroller ♦ unhurried. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Leisurely Pursuit (reference) Cooking for the Week : Leisurely Weekend Cooking for Easy WeekDAY Meals (reference) Cycling Across North America: A Leisurely Route from Coast to Coast (reference) Drop-In Delights: Activities for the Leisurely Patron (reference) Frank Cook's Strolling Through London: 9 Leisurely Strolls (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Country Air: A Leisurely Musical Stroll (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	They were leisurely and perfumed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Czech Rep	Business luncheons normally are more formal and leisurely than in the United States. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Leisurely" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.13% of the time. "Leisurely" is used about 334 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)	84.13%	281	17,410
Adverb (general)	15.87%	53	46,657
Total	100.00%	334	N/A

Expression using "leisurely": at a leisurely pace. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "leisurely": leisurely-paced.
	Ending with "leisurely": over-leisurely.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "leisurely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa ngut, me nge (idly). (various references)

Arabic		‏لديه فراغ, ‏على مهل, ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), ‏عاطل (non-working, out of work), ‏بروية, ‏بدون جهد (without effort). (various references)

Bulgarian		спокойно (calmly, easy, evenly, gently, quiet, quietly, smooth), спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, soft, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmolested, unruffled, untroubled), отмерен (circumspect, deliberate, measured, precise, rhythmical), не припряно, без бързане, бавно (deliberately, piano, slow, slowly), бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready). (various references)

Chinese		逸 (escape, outstanding), 逍 (easy-going), 散 (adjourn, loosen, powdered medicine, scatter, to come loose, to scatter), � 闲, � �' (ease), 安�' (peaceful and carefree). (various references)

Czech		neuspìchaný (unhurried). (various references)

Dutch		rustig (calm, quiet, quietly, tranquil), kalm (calm, quiet, quietly, tranquil). (various references)

Esperanto		kviete (quietly). (various references)

Finnish		verkalleen (at a slow rate, slow, slowly), hidas (dilatory, slow, tardy). (various references)

French		lentement (leasurely), tranquille, sans faire de gros efforts, pondéré (level headed), peut fatigant, paisiblement, fait sans se presser, calme. (various references)

German		gemächlich (comfortable, convenient, handy, opportune, sedate, sedately, unhurried, unhurriedly). (various references)

Greek		βραδύσ (adagio, largo, lento, slack, slow, sluggish, tardy), βραδέωσ (adagio, lento), αβίαστοσ (unconstrained, unstrained). (various references)

Hungarian		ráérő (leisure), nyugodtan (calmly, composedly, imperturbably, levelly, on an even keel, quietly, sedately, serenely, tranquilly, undisturbedly), nyugodt (calm, calm-glassy, comfortable, composed, good tempered, good-tempered, imperturbable, in all conscience, level-headed, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reassured, relaxed, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, staid, still, stilly, to be at ease, tranquil, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled), megfontolt (advised, chary, conscious, considered, deliberate, discreet, earnest, grave, guarded, judicious, level headed, level-headed, measured, prudent, reflective, sedate, slow, staid, studied, uncompanionable), lassú (adagio, dawdling, deliberate, moderate, ooze, pokey, poky, slow, sluggish, tardy, to go at a walk, to jog along, to move at a walk), komótos (unhurried), kényelmesen (at an easy pace, cozily, snugly), kényelmes (comfortable, comfy, commodious, convenient, cosh, cosy, cozy, cushy, easy going, handy, leisured, nonchalant). (various references)

Italian		senza fretta, fatto con comodo, con comodo, comodo (comfort, comfortable, comfy, convenience, convenient, cosiest, cosy, cozy, cushy, ease, easiness, easy, handy, leisure, leisured, snug). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		緩々 (slowly, very loose), � 長 (deliberate, easygoing, slow), � 々 (calm, quiet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きなが (patient), ゆうゆう (calm, quiet), ゆうちょう (deliberate, easygoing, mountain bird, slow, tedious), ゆるゆる (slowly, very loose). (various references)

Manx		soccaragh (easy-going, forbearing, good-natured, pacific, placid, slow, slow as person, staid, sweet-tempered, unexcitable), aashagh (acquiescent, easy, effortless, rest, softly). (various references)

Pig Latin		eisurelylay

Portuguese		livre (bohemian, clear, disengaged, exempt, fetterlock, floating, free, idle, immunity, independent, loose, masterly, off, quit, spare, spontaneous, unappropriated, unattached, unconstrained, unencumbered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unoccupied, unrestrained, untied, untrammelled), vagaroso (behindhand, easygoing life, lingo, long-suffering, slow, sluggish, stalwart, stick in the mud, tardy), vagarosamente (Cose, gently born, slow), sem pressa, desocupado (disengaged, empty, idle, leisured, off, otiose, unappropriated, unoccupied, vacant), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, Douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, impervious, irretentive, mild, noiseless, passionless, peace loving, peaceable, peaceful, philosophical, philosophical belief, phloem, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unprovoked, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled), calmamente (calmly, evenly, quietly, stilly, undisturbedly). (various references)

Romanian		tihnit (comfortable, easeful, leisured, patriarchal, quiet, recumbent, reposeful), tacticos (calm, slow, slowly, steady, tranquil), pe îndelete (deliberately), domol (don't hurry, gently, gradually, mild, not so fast, quiet, slow, slowly, softly), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, deliberate, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, gentle, hist, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, lingering, low, slack, slow, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, tardy, time-taking, weak). (various references)

Russian		свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, immune, loose, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant), не спеша, досужий (leisured). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ležerno, ležeran (comfortable, easygoing, laid back, leisure, mellow, relaxed), lagano (gently, slowly), lagan (slow, unhurried), natenane (gingerly, slowly). (various references)

Spanish		sin prisa, relajado (laid back, loose, relaxed), ocioso (at leisure, dawdler, idle, idler, inactive, leisured, unoccupied, useless), en reposo. (various references)

Swedish		maklig (easy going, easy-going, sedate, unhurried). (various references)

Thai		อย่างไม่รีบร้อน, ตามสบาย. (various references)

Turkish		yavaş yavaş (at leisure, bit by bit, by inches, by slow degrees, by stages, inch by inch, little by little, slowly), yavaş (gingerly, languishing, largo, lingering, not fast, poco, slow, slowly, slowspeed, tardy), sakin sakin, acelesiz (unhurried), acele etmeden (at leisure). (various references)

Ukranian		спокійно (at ease, calmly, easy, evenly, peacefully, quietly, serenely, smooth, with abandon), вільний (broad, devoid, disengaged, disposable, emancipated, exempt, fetterless, for hire, free, licentious, loose, odd, off, open, out, quit, unbound), неквапливо (deliberately, easily, easy, unhurriedly), повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, lingering, logy, slack, slow, sluggish, snail-paced, sulky). (various references)

Vietnamese		ung dung, thong dong, rảnh rang; thong thả, rỗi rãi, nh� n nhã; thong thả, nh� n nhã l� m trong lúc rảnh rang; l� m ung dung. (various references)

Welsh		hamddenol (deliberate), araf (backward, slow). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Leisurely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leisurly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leisurely" (pronounced lē"zerlē)
4	-z er l ē	miserly.
3	-er l ē	bitterly, brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, linearly, masterly, motherly, neighborly, northeasterly, northerly, northwesterly, orderly, overly, painterly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, quarterly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, utterly, Weatherly, westerly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-r-s-u-y"
	-2 letters: leerily, leisure, surlily, yellers.
	-3 letters: eerily, eyries, relies, resell, resile, rilles, seller, siller, surely, yeller.
	-4 letters: eyers, eyres, eyrie, ileus, iller, leers, leery, liers, lieus, lisle, lures, lyres, reels, reuse, riels, riles, riley, rille, rills, rules, seely, selle, sieur, silly, siree, slier, slily, slyer, sully, surly, yells, yills, yules.
	-5 letters: eels, eely, eery, ells.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-l-r-s-u-y"
	+2 letters: prelusively, reclusively, repulsively.
	+3 letters: irresolutely, preclusively, rebelliously.
	+4 letters: deleteriously, intersexually, superlatively.
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