Word Meanings - LEISURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple. 2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence,

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1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple. 2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease. He sighed, and had no leisure more to say. Dryden. At leisure. Free from occupation; not busy. In a leisurely manner; at a convenient time.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEISURE)

• Vacant
• Empty
• leisure
• unemployed
• unencumbered
• unoccupied
• void
• unfilled
• mindless
• exhausted

Related words: (words related to LEISURE)

• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• LEISURED
  Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• EMPTY
  1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• MINDLESS
  1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking. 2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• UNENCUMBER
  To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• EXHAUST
  1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. 2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• LEISURE
  1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple. 2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence,
• VACANT
  Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate. Bouvier. Vacant succession , one that is claimed by no person, or where all the heirs are unknown, or where all the known heirs to it have renounced it. Burrill.
• LEISURELY
  Characterized by leisure; taking abundant tome; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
• EXHAUSTIBILITY
  Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.
• EXHAUSTIBLE
  Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.
• EXHAUSTMENT
  Exhaustion; drain.
• EXHAUSTING
  Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors. -- Ex*haust"ing, adv.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• INEXHAUSTIVE
  Inexhaustible. Thomson.
• INEXHAUSTIBLE
  Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words. Dryden. An inexhaustible store of anecdotes. Macaulay. -- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness,
• OVEREMPTY
  To make too empty; to exhaust. Carew.
• KEMP; KEMPTY
  Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.