leisured
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time."
- "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,"
Etymology
From leisure + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more leisured (comparative)
most leisured (superlative)