engaged

Meaning

Verb

simple past and past participle of engage

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
2. (not-comparable) Busy or employed.
3. (not-comparable) Greatly interested.
4. (British, not-comparable) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
5. (not-comparable) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6. (not-comparable) in contact and in operation
7. (not-comparable) being attacked or attacking
8. (not-comparable) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9. (not-comparable) Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).

engage

1. (transitive) To interact socially.
2. (ambitransitive) To interact socially.
3. To interact socially.
4. (transitive) To interact antagonistically.
5. (intransitive) To interact antagonistically.
6. (transitive) To interact contractually.
7. (intransitive) To interact contractually.
8. (transitive) To interact contractually.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To interact contractually.
10. To interact mechanically.
11. (transitive) To interact mechanically.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To entangle.

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Synonyms

busy

occupied

betrothed

engrossed

employed

booked

absorbed

reserved

in use

set-aside

intermeshed

become engaged

hired

bound

meshed

involved

preoccupied

fixed

frozen

hectic

immersed

online

on-line

paid

promised

rapt

ready

real

ringed

set

solid

stipendiary

tied up

undatable

undertaking

unmovable

windy

working

be busy

be betrothed

having undertaken

engaged line

make-busy

nonvacant

affianced

applied

appointed

at work

betroth

bounded

Translations

impegnato

beschäftigt

fiancé

occupato

meşgul

verloofd

geëngageerd

karîwer

engagé

xerîk

meşxul

mijûl

fidanzato

occupé

verlobt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/

Sentences

Additionally , minstrels were known for their involvement in political commentary and engaged in propaganda .