Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Acting, proceeding, or done without haste; unhurried. synonym: slow.
- adverb In an unhurried manner; slowly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- At leisure; not hastily or hurriedly; deliberately.
- Done at leisure; not hasty; deliberate: as, a leisurely stroll; a leisurely survey.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried
- adverb In a leisurely manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by
leisure ; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk. - adverb In a leisurely manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unhurried way or at one's convenience
- adjective not hurried or forced
Etymologies
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Examples
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All this is scrupulously externalized and narrated in leisurely fashion.
Literary Study 2009
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
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As Auden wrote in "Musee des Beaux Arts": "everything turns away/Quite leisurely from the disaster."
Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005
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As Auden wrote in "Musee des Beaux Arts": "everything turns away/Quite leisurely from the disaster."
http://mujāhidīn.co.uk Ben Barren 2005
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(Laughter) There was a long portage to be made, and we set out in leisurely fashion at the head of the party.
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And so the rancher, who used to tie his horse to a post outside the store and proceed to trade in leisurely fashion became an "intensive farmer" and his needs grew many.
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We walked back again leisurely, though to my excited imagination the sound of the filing deadened every other sound.
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918
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He stropped his razor painstakingly and shaved himself in leisurely fashion and sent an occasional glance toward his prisoner from the looking-glass, which made Buck swallow hard at his Adam's apple.
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