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Unengaged

Definition: Unengaged

Unengaged

Adjective

1. Not busy or occupied; free; "the cancellation left her unengaged a good part of the afternoon".

2. Not promised in marriage; "continued seeing him but on an unengaged basis".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unengaged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references)


Synonyms: Unengaged

Synonyms: unpledged (adj), unpromised (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unengaged

English words defined with "unengaged": unpledged, unpromised. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unengaged

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unengaged

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unengaged

Language Translations for "unengaged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

libre (unattached, unchecked, uncommitted, unoccupied, unrestricted). (various references)

   

German

  

unbeschäftigt (free, idle, leisured, unemployed, unemployedly, unoccupied). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

手空き (being free, leisure, not busy), 手明き (being free, leisure, not busy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

てすき (being free, handmade paper, leisure, not busy, spare or free time), てあき (being free, leisure, not busy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

engagedunay

   

Romanian

  

liber (at a loose end, at large, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loose, loosely, naked, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unfettered, unhampered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), sözlü olmayan, nişanlı olmayan, boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rảnh; chưa đính hôn, không có hẹn với ai, không bận, chưa hứa hôn chưa ai giữ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unengaged

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-n-n-u"

-2 letters: dunnage, engaged.

-3 letters: augend, degage, dengue, duenna, engage, ennead, ganged, gangue, gauged, gunned, nagged, unaged.

-4 letters: agene, egged, endue, gaged, gauge, genua, nudge, undee.

-5 letters: aged, agee, ague, dang, dean, dene, dune, dung, edge, egad, gaed, gaen, gage, gane, gang, gaud, gaun, geed, gene, genu, guan, gude, need, nene, nude, unde.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-n-n-u"
 

+4 letters: gelandesprung.

 

+5 letters: gelandesprungs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unengaged


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 65 6E 67 61 67 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .    -.    --.    .-    --.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#101 &#110 &#103 &#97 &#103 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0065 006E 0067 0061 0067 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558071807367737170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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