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engaged

1.4

Promised to marry someone

adjective
/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/

: comprometido

She is now officially engaged to her longtime boyfriend.

I know a woman who is engaged to a man.

Examples

Do you think Dylan and I got engaged too soon?
But he, he, he got engaged to the one girl.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of an engaged woman woman.
I know a woman who is engaged to a man.

Bedros Keuilian
Long story short, gets engaged and gets married to the new guy.
So I started thinking about getting engaged a few years ago.
And so hopefully I will be engaged at some point in the future.
And then when we decided to get engaged, they gathered all around us.
So yeah, I've recently just got engaged and thank you.
Everyone congratulated him when they heard he was engaged.

Synonyms

betrothed

vsengaged

Formal

1 7.7

Promised to marry someone

is the neutral term for having formally agreed to marry

intended

vsengaged

Archaic

6.5

Engaged to be married

is a gender neutral term for having agreed to marry

Idioms

otherwise engaged

4 4.6

Busy with something else and not available

How Committed

married

∞ 1.0

engaged

1.4

partner

878 1.1

dating

357 1.6

single

733 1.0

Surface Forms

engaged positive

Morphology

engaged = engage (semi-transparent) = engage + ed

The marital sense derives from an older sense of 'engage' meaning to pledge oneself; modern learners who know 'engage' mainly as 'hire' or 'involve' may not immediately infer 'betrothed'.

Etymology

Engaged comes from en- 'in' + gage 'pledge', so it originally meant someone who had given a 'pledge'. That's why being engaged today means you have 'promised' to marry someone.