Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Acting, proceeding, or done without haste; unhurried. See Synonyms at slow.
- adv. In an unhurried manner; slowly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Done at leisure; not hasty; deliberate: as, a leisurely stroll; a leisurely survey.
- At leisure; not hastily or hurriedly; deliberately.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
- adv. In a leisurely manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried
- adv. In a leisurely manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an unhurried way or at one's convenience
- adj. not hurried or forced
Etymologies
- From leisure + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All this is scrupulously externalized and narrated in leisurely fashion.”
“Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may”
“Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may”
“As Auden wrote in "Musee des Beaux Arts": "everything turns away/Quite leisurely from the disaster.”
“(Laughter) There was a long portage to be made, and we set out in leisurely fashion at the head of the party.”
“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.”
“We walked back again leisurely, though to my excited imagination the sound of the filing deadened every other sound.”
“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.”
“Loveday made her way through the throng in leisurely fashion, and not a man but what had keen scrutiny from her sharp eyes.”
“She walked the length of Portland Place in leisurely fashion, and then, having first ascertained that her movements were not being watched, she called a hansom, and desired the man to drive her to Madame Celine's, a fashionable milliner's in Old Bond Street.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘leisurely’.
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manly, womanly, ungainly, slovenly, homily, costly, dastardly, family, sparkly, wrinkly, oily, orderly and 69 more...
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easy
creasy, over easy, free-and-easy, greasy, speakeasy, take it easy, weasy, lope, leisurely, wing chair, uncomplicated, luminous and 38 more...
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summerwing's Words
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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March23.MC.
woven, wool, donned, leisurely, caught, flew, fitted, headed, plunging, seamed, vintage
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verbie's Words
immerse, quotidian, leisurely, exigencies, paroxysm, loquacious, engagement, prattle, gregarious, cantankerous, soporific, callipygian and 3 more...
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slow
leisurely, linger, stroll, wade, glide, drifting, amble, ramble, roam, snooze, wander, wonder and 8 more...
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