| Main Entry: | leisure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
Synonyms: |
chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
Antonyms: |
employment, work |
| Concept: | Leisure. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday (rest); otium cum dignitate [Cicero], ease.
-verbs
have leisure; take one's time, take one's leisure, take one's ease; repose; move slowly; while away the time (inaction); be master of one's time, be an idle man.
-adjectives
leisure, leisureIy; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at a loose end.
-phrases
time hanging heavy on one's hands; eile mit Weile.
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Antonyms: |
haste |
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| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spare time |
Synonyms: |
chance, freedom, hour, leisure, liberty, occasion, one's own sweet time, opportunity, place, preference, spare moment, suitable time, whenever |
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peace, quiet; lack of difficulty |
Synonyms: |
affluence, ataraxia, bed of roses, calm, calmness, comfort, content, contentment, easiness, enjoyment, gratification, happiness, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertness, leisure, luxury, passivity, peace of mind*, prosperity, quietness, quietude, relaxation, repose, requiescence, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, security, serenity, supinity, tranquility |
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difficulty, disquiet, excitableness, furor, strife, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest |
| Main Entry: | idleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
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action, ambition, busyness, diligence, employment, hustle, industry, labor, occupation, work |
| Main Entry: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
Synonyms: |
autarchy, authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, power of choice, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty, suffrage, unconstraint |
Antonyms: |
arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| Main Entry: | luxury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great pleasure, indulgence |
Synonyms: |
affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat, well-being |
Antonyms: |
austerity, economy, frugality |
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
Synonyms: |
befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake, fighting chance, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack |
Antonyms: |
bad luck, misfortune |
| Main Entry: | relaxation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment; resting or recovering |
Synonyms: |
alleviation, amusement, assuagement, diversion, enjoyment, fun, leisure, loosening, mitigation, pleasure, reclining, recreation, refreshment, relief, repose, requiescence, rest |
Antonyms: |
intensification, labor, work |
| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restfulness; calm |
Synonyms: |
ease, inaction, inactivity, leisure, peace, quiet, quietness, quietude, refreshment, relaxation, relaxing, renewal, requiescence, respite, rest, restoration, sleep, slumber, stillness, tranquillity |
Antonyms: |
agitation, disturbance, upset, worry |