Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not engaged; not under engagement; unoccupied; at liberty.
- Free from care or attention; easy.
- In entomology, not adhering to other parts, except at the base.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disengage . - adjective
Unconnected ;detached . - adjective dated Not (socially)
engaged ;available ,free .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a man believes that matter exists as a thing _not_ disengaged from perception, he cannot believe that it exists as a thing _disengaged_ from perception.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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Well, the final category with 14 percent, they are what we call the disengaged, those who generally have a low level of interest in the news.
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After leaving Nina Ricci, Theyskens said he felt disengaged from the luxury business.
Olivier Theyskens's Theory of relativity: High standards at a lower price Robin Givhan 2010
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I didn't and like many people, I felt disengaged from the political process.
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* Explaining the enthusiasm gap: Gerald Seib says all the chatter about Dems being disengaged is off-base: What's really creating the enthusiasm disparity is that Republicans are jacked up in an extraordinary way.
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2010
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If you can get your kids into groups, clubs or team programs, you get disengaged from the parent base.
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I didn't and like many people, I felt disengaged from the political process.
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Eventually a plot did surface towards the end of the book but, alas, by then I was already disengaged from the narrative and the characters that were so diligently drawn.
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I didn't and like many people, I felt disengaged from the political process.
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Gratifying for activists, but Murray found herself disengaged from the discussion, including the very large Facebook group that formed, Fair Copyright for Canada.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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