leisurely

Word family

RELAXEDif you do something in a leisurely way, you do it in a slow relaxed way, without hurrying 慢悠悠的，不慌不忙的

After lunch we went for a leisurely stroll.

吃過午飯，我們慢悠悠地散了個步。

working at a leisurely pace

不慌不忙地幹活

► see thesaurus at slow

—leisurely adverbadv

He sipped leisurely at his drink.

他悠閒地抿着酒。

Examples from the Corpus

leisurely• We spent a leisurely afternoon talking about old times.• Basketball offered an intimacy and an aesthetic on television lacking in the brutal National Football League or the technical and leisurely baseball.• She enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and had time to read the newspaper.• Sunday mornings she gets up late and then has a leisurely breakfast with her family.• One day this son of a landowner was about to take his boat out for a leisurely day of fishing.• After church we usually take a leisurely drive through the country.• It developed in a slower-paced society when change proceeded at a leisurely gait.• Cattle and sheep move at a leisurely pace over the earthworks that mark where men once lived and worked.• The horse cropped at a leisurely pace through the flat Fenland countryside, Illingworth fretting while my friend gazed about calmly.• The horse walked at a leisurely pace through the flat Fenland countryside.• a leisurely pace• The two set off walking down the beach at a leisurely pace.• Reggie was an endearing, kindly man who had led a leisurely, unadventurous life as a country gentleman.• The moose resumed his leisurely walk toward me, and his grunts.

Syllable

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 11186 COCA: 13384

leisurely adj.
⇨ easy 2

TOEFL BNC: 11186 COCA: 13384

leisurely

Calm and relaxed: calm, relaxed, cool...