Adjective: engagé
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more engagé |
| Superlative | most engagé |
Sample Sentences
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Fortunately, most scholars, engagé or not, are willing to deal with differing ponts of view. [1983, Latin American Research Review - Volume 18, page 90:]
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Moreover, when Ulibarrí's subsequent works are published by Chicano presses (Justa, The Bilingual Press, Arte Público), he joins the brother-and sisterhood of Chicano literati—the engagé as well as those who would write to delect and entertain rather than to inspire revolutions. [1993, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico, →ISBN:]
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Rejecting both the high art-as-tradition creed of the self-styled Humanists led by T.S. Eliot and the Soviet example of literary realism advocated by New Masses editor and author Michael Gold, Farrell called for an art both engagé and free. [2003, James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like engagé
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From French engagé. Doublet of engagee.