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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. free and relaxed in manner;
- Example: "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson

2. showing lack of emotional involvement;
- Example: "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman
- Example: "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"
- Example: "an uninvolved bystander"
[syn: degage, detached, uninvolved]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

d'egag'e \d['e]`ga`g['e]"\, a. [F., p. p. of d['e]gager to disengage. See De-, 1st Gage, and cf. Disgage.] Unconstrained; easy; free. --Vanbrugh. A graceful and d['e]gag['e] manner. --Poe. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

degage adj 1: free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson 2: showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" [syn: degage, detached, uninvolved]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "degage": Bohemian, affable, airy, blase, breezy, careless, casual, common, cordial, cursory, devil-may-care, disregardant, disregardful, easy, easygoing, familiar, flippant, folksy, forgetful, free and easy, gracious, haymish, heedless, homely, homey, inconsiderate, indifferent, informal, insouciant, irregular, lackadaisical, lazy, loose, low-pressure, natural, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, offhanded, perfunctory, plain, reckless, regardless, relaxed, respectless, simple, sociable, tactless, thoughtless, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unconcerned, unconstrained, unconventional, undiplomatic, unfussy, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unofficial, unprepared, unready, unreserved, unsolicitous, unstudied, untactful, unthinking