leisuresome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by leisure; leisurely

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveleisuresome (comparative more leisuresome, superlative most leisuresome)

comparative more leisuresome · superlative most leisuresome

  1. Characterised or marked by leisure; leisurely

    It is a tributary of the Shenandoah, and winds gracefully under cliff and willow in its leisuresome and quiet way toward the sea.

    1876, The Virginia Spectator, page 76
    2 more examples

    Most managements display sufficient munificence to allow their researchers a measure of self-indulgence when company problems are not imminent, and this liberality on their part gets amply rewarded when leisuresome research activity sprouts into a potential discovery of long term benefit.

    1990, Vidula Jakatdar, Destiny Makers of Indian Industry

    It was not that he placed great store by the veiling of women; no woman veiled herself in the countryside because it would have been impossible to work, and the women who covered themselves in this town, small as it was. merely did so as a point of vanity, to indicate that they enjoyed a leisuresome life.

    2010, Louis de Bernieres, Birds Without Wings

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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