Antonyms for engaged
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : en-geyjd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈgeɪdʒd |
Definition of engaged
Origin :- early 15c., "to pledge," from Middle French engagier, from Old French en gage "under pledge," from en "make" + gage "pledge," through Frankish from Proto-Germanic *wadiare "pledge" (see wed).
- It shows the common evolution of Germanic -w- to French -g-; cf. Guillaume from Wilhelm). Meaning "attract the attention of" is from 1640s; that of "employ" is from 1640s, from notion of "binding as by a pledge." Specific sense of "promise to marry" is 1610s (implied in engaged).
- adj promised to be married
- adj operating; busy
- Plainly, too, he was a man of action and a man who engaged all her instinctive liking.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Then after she was engaged to Shepler they talked him out of it.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- My granddaughter, you may have heard, is engaged to an Englishman.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- While engaged with her father, she would cut wood, haul logs, etc.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- On the 23rd we were engaged making preparations for a start for Eucla.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- If he had engaged himself to a handsome schoolmistress, it was his fancy, and he could afford it.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Our peace with the power with whom we had been engaged had also been concluded.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- The former is engaged in commerce and the latter is the popular member for Leeds.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- You ask, Why may not your brother be first engaged in wedlock?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Should the eye be disgusted, when the heart is to be engaged?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
Synonyms for engaged
- absorbed
- affianced
- asked for
- at work
- betrothed
- bound
- committed
- connected with
- contracted
- dealing in
- deep
- doing
- employed
- engrossed
- future
- given one's word
- going steady
- hooked
- immersed
- in place
- in use
- intended
- intent
- interested
- involved
- matched
- occupied
- performing
- pinned
- pledged
- plighted
- practicing
- preoccupied
- pursuing
- rapt
- ringed
- signed
- spoken for
- steady
- tied up
- unavailable
- working
- wrapped up
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