English Online Dictionary. What means engaged? What does engaged mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/, /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
- Rhymes: -eɪdʒd
Verb
engaged
- simple past and past participle of engage
Adjective
engaged (not comparable)
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonyms: affianced, betrothed
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- Synonym: (US) busy
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
Derived terms
Related terms
- engage
- engagement