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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]