unhurried

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

slow
slowYou're so slow - hurry up!
leisurelyWe took a leisurely drive along the quiet coast road.
unhurriedI like the unhurried pace of life in the countryside.
gentleStart off with a gentle jog, then gradually increase your speed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Peaceful and tranquil
balm
beatitude
consonance
coolness
dust
lull
non-militant
peaceable
peaceably
peacefully
quieten
restfulness
sequestered
sleepiness
sleepy
soothing
soothingly
the calm before the stormidiom
the dust settlesidiom
the lull before the stormidiom

Examples of leisurely

leisurely
People may eat their food hurriedly or be more leisurely.
These sources serve to reinforce one another, and in next section we give an informal and leisurely survey of the perspectives offered by them.
The routines of editing the journal are dominated by a two-monthly rolling production cycle that is lodged within the more leisurely annual cycle.
He felt that he could not respire leisurely nor stop breathing at any time because of this restlessness in respiration.
However, the elderly may not have spent a leisurely life completely withdrawn from the world of work.
The rhythmic pattern of the bass line establishes the leisurely pace of the promenade.
The students were asked to record their own conversations with their friends, housemates, or family members in the casual, leisurely context of their own student or family home.
Slack discipline and a prodigiously leisurely rate of fire could find gunners caught unprepared by swift enemy attack.
Physical functions, which tend to be linked to sociodemographic and health status characteristics, may be maintained even by moderate levels of activity, such as leisurely walking.
The musical style, along with the fantasy of over-indulgent leisurely bachelorhood, grows more dissonant with competing images of heroic masculinity, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.
Generally the tone is relaxed, even leisurely: sometimes this produces a rather diffuse impression, with a tendency towards over-sectionalized structures linking a succession of separate four-bar phrases.
The paper concludes with a discussion of representations of the 'leisurely bachelor' in other contemporaneous media.
Here the duality is not between absolute and experiential time but between the more intensively experienced time of music and the more leisurely passing time of speech.
The man is pictured in some leisurely occupation - playing tennis, selecting a fine wine, purchasing a tie (or, in one rather strange example, watching a portable television on the beach).
Certainly, his calm escape after his crime does not characterize him as guilt ridden over his actions : he ' ' clambered leisurely to the ceiling ' ' and ' ' disappeared through the sky-light ' ' (908).
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