désœuvré
French, adjective
désœuvré is spelled D-É-S-Œ-U-V-R-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désœuvré is a French adjective meaning “idle, aimless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of désœuvrer. With an accent, désœuvre is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui ne sait pas s’occuper, qui n’en a pas le moyen”.
What does désœuvré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
idle, aimless
verb
- 1
past participle of désœuvrer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui ne sait pas s’occuper, qui n’en a pas le moyen.
noun: 1. Individu sans activité.
noun: 1. État d’une personne désœuvrée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of désœuvré
- désœuvrée feminine
- désœuvrés masculine plural
- désœuvrées feminine plural
- désœuvres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is désœuvré in French?
désœuvré appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).