different between vacant vs disengaged

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?k?nt/

Adjective

vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)

1. Not occupied; empty.

   vacant lot

2. Showing no intelligence or interest.

   a vacant stare

Synonyms

• (Not occupied): available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied
• (Showing no intelligence or interest): vacuous, thousand mile stare

Derived terms

• vacancy noun
• vacantly adverb

Related terms

• unfilled
• vacate verb

Translations

Anagrams

• Van cat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.k??/

Adjective

vacant (feminine singular vacante, masculine plural vacants, feminine plural vacantes)

1. vacant

Further reading

• “vacant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

vacant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vac?

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?ka?t/

Adjective

vacant

1. vacant

Romanian

Etymology

From French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Adjective

vacant m or n (feminine singular vacant?, masculine plural vacan?i, feminine and neuter plural vacante)

1. unoccupied

Declension

English

Etymology

From disengage +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?n??e?d?d/

Verb

disengaged

1. simple past tense and past participle of disengage

Adjective

disengaged (comparative more disengaged, superlative most disengaged)

1. Unconnected; detached.
2. (dated) Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 40:

     ‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’