engaged

Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.

Adjective

  1. Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.

    Synonyms: affianced betrothed

  2. Busy or employed.
    • Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this? - 1984, “When Doves Cry”, in Purple Rain, performed by Prince:
  3. Greatly interested.
  4. Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
    • I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.

    Synonyms: busy

  5. attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  6. in contact and in operation
  7. being attacked or attacking
  8. Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
  9. Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
    • Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics. - 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature, page 81:

    Synonyms: engagé

Related

engage engagement

Derived

engaged column engagedly engagedness engaged time engaged tone nonengaged otherwise engaged semiengaged underengaged unengaged

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of engage