Antonyms for engaged
ɛnˈgeɪdʒden·gaged

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1. engagedadjective

   Agreed to be married.

   Synonyms:
   busy

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1. engaged

   Industrious signifies zealously or habitually applying oneself to any work or business. Busy applies to an activity which may be temporary, industrious to a habit of life. We say a man is busy just now; that is, occupied at the moment with something that takes his full attention. It would be ridiculous or satirical to say, he is industrious just now. But busy can be used in the sense of industrious, as when we say he is a busy man. Diligent indicates also a disposition, which is ordinarily habitual, and suggests more of heartiness and volition than industrious. We say one is a diligent, rather than an industrious, reader of the Bible. In the use of the nouns, we speak of plodding industry, but not of plodding diligence. Compare ACTIVE; INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   active, assiduous, busy, diligent, employed, industrious, occupied, sedulous

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1. engaged

   Antonyms:
   free, unemployed, disengaged, unaffianced

   Synonyms:
   occupied, employed, selected, intent, chosen, affianced, betrothed

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1. engaged, occupiedadjective

   having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

   "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"

   Antonyms:
   idle, unemployed, unreserved, uninvolved, unoccupied, ungeared, unconnected

   Synonyms:
   occupied, in use(p), intermeshed, set-aside(p), booked, meshed, busy, tenanted

2. engagedadjective

   involved in military hostilities

   "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"

   Antonyms:
   unoccupied, idle, unconnected, unemployed, uninvolved, unreserved, ungeared

   Synonyms:
   booked, intermeshed, set-aside(p), meshed, occupied, busy, in use(p)

3. booked, engaged, set-aside(p)adjective

   reserved in advance

   Antonyms:
   unoccupied, unreserved, unemployed, unconnected, ungeared, uninvolved, idle

4. busy, engaged, in use(p)adjective

   (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)

   "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"

   Antonyms:
   ungeared, unconnected, unreserved, unoccupied, idle, uninvolved, unemployed

5. engaged, meshed, intermeshedadjective

   (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting

   "the gears are engaged"; "meshed gears"; "intermeshed twin rotors"

   Antonyms:
   uninvolved, unoccupied, idle, unreserved, unconnected, unemployed, ungeared

   Synonyms:
   occupied, in use(p), intermeshed, set-aside(p), enmeshed, booked, meshed, busy

6. engagedadjective

   having services contracted for

   "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"

   Antonyms:
   unemployed, ungeared, unreserved, unoccupied, unconnected, uninvolved, idle

   Synonyms:
   booked, intermeshed, set-aside(p), meshed, occupied, busy, in use(p)

7. engagedadjective

   built against or attached to a wall

   "engaged columns"

   Antonyms:
   idle, uninvolved, ungeared, unconnected, unemployed, unreserved, unoccupied

   Synonyms:
   booked, intermeshed, set-aside(p), meshed, occupied, busy, in use(p)

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1. engagedadjective

   Synonyms:
   occupied, employed, engrossed, affianced, betrothed

How to use engaged in a sentence?

1. Guillaume Berube:

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2. Harold Rosenberg:

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4. Muriel Spark:

   Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

5. Vanessa Fajans-Turner:

   That's not a coherent sustainable finance strategy, and the bank's clients and competitors know it, we welcome the announcements by banks to be increasingly engaged climate actors. But banks still have a long way to go.

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