Leisure vs Leisurely - What's the difference?
leisure | leisurely | Related terms |
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
Time free from work or duties.
* Sir W. Temple
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
* 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
* Dryden
Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
* 1900', , Chapter I,
In a leisurely manner.
*1943 , (Raymond Chandler), The High Window , Penguin 2005, p. 37:
*:Sunset Crescent Drive curved leisurely north from Sunset Boulevard, well beyond the Bel-Air Country Club golf-course.
Leisurely is a related term of leisure.
As a noun leisure
is freedom provided by the cessation of activities.As an adjective leisurely is
characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.As an adverb leisurely is
in a leisurely manner.leisure
English
Noun
- The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
- Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
- This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
- He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.
See also
* ease * recreationleisurely
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.