désoeuvré

See also: désœuvre and désœuvré

English

Etymology

From French désœuvré.

Adjective

désoeuvré (comparative more désoeuvré, superlative most désoeuvré)

1. Unemployed; unoccupied, idle.
   • 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 43:

     They had been stopped at the dazio coming back, and the young officials there, who seemed impudent and désœuvré, had tried to search their reticules.

French

Adjective

désoeuvré (feminine désoeuvrée, masculine plural désoeuvrés, feminine plural désoeuvrées)

1. Nonstandard spelling of désœuvré.

Usage notes

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

Further reading

• “désoeuvré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.