leisured
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˈliːʒərd/
:
desahogado
- A successful industrialist from a nonconformist background, Abraham Darby was intent on recasting himself as a respectable member of the leisured classes with a cultivated taste in high art (Fig. 3).
- leisured class
Examples
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They became a leisured class, men of letters who were divorced from power and the people.
Academic text (2001) -
Yet globally, there was a growing recognition that museums were the province of the leisured classes and the tourists exclusively.
Academic text (2006) -
Traffic was light through the city; most of the day workers were already on the job, and it was too early for the leisured classes to be out of bed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Missionaries followed the government officers, and some of each quit their posts for the leisured life of tea planters.
Fiction book (1993) -
His Dells, though a place of leisured retreat, were meant to edify and enlighten.
Academic text (1998) -
To be a person of culture, one needs some freedom from the press of the useful and the gainful, some leisure; one need not, however, be a member of the leisured aristocracy.
Academic text (1997) -
At the same time, all notions of luxury are borrowed from the culture of the envied inhabitants of that leisured eminence.
Academic text (1994) -
The poetry in this mode explores emotions that could exist only in a leisured milieu (Liu 1962, 54).
Academic text (1990) -
And he went everywhere unrecognized... and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants... calling himself a cattleman or a commodities investor... someone rich and leisured who had the common touch.
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After years of hard work, she finally enjoyed a leisured lifestyle, spending her days traveling and relaxing.
Synonyms
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6.9
Free to travel or live without many responsibilities
Antonyms
How Leisurely
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word leisured comes from leisure, a word that at first meant 'to be allowed' and later came to mean 'free time' when you can do what you like. So a leisured person is someone with a lot of 'free time' and not much work.