Leisured

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.
2. Leisurely, filled with leisure.

Example Sentences

The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time.

The iron and coal valleys of the Vermissa district were no resorts for the leisured or the cultured. Everywhere there were stern signs of the crudest battle of life, the rude work to be done, and the rude, strong workers who did it.

The very world for which they were designed is no longer imaginable. Rich, stable, be-leisured, and secure, it was shattered by the first world war.

They had become a superior, leisured caste.

It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in leisured, educated people.

1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20, And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought, By envy sore distraught, Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers, Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,

"All right," said Basil, rising also and seating himself in a leisured way in an armchair. "Don't hurry for us," he said, glancing round at the litter of the room, "we have all the illustrated papers."

Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.

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• more leisured
• most leisured

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