disengaged
adjUK /dɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/
Etymology From disengage + -ed.
1
Not engaged; at leisure; free from occupation or attachment; unconnected; detached.
- “Calm yourself, dear Arthur,” she said, in her low rich voice, and sniffled sweetly and gravely upon him. Then, with her disengaged hand, she put the hair lightly off his throbbing forehead.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
2
Dated Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
- These perused, the Major took out his pocket-book to see on what days he was disengaged, and which of these many hospitable calls he could afford to accept or decline.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- ‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 40:
- Derived terms
- disengagedness