excused
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Officially released from a duty, obligation, or requirement: Describes a person who has been formally permitted to not do something they would normally be expected to do.
- Granted an exemption or pardon: Indicates that someone has been forgiven for a fault or failure to act.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Students with a doctor's note will be excused from the final exam.
- The excused juror did not have to serve on the trial.
- She was excused from the meeting due to a prior commitment.
Advanced Usage
- "To be excused": A polite phrase used to ask for or state permission to leave a place, especially a table or a conversation.
- "May I be excused from the dinner table?" the child asked.
- "Consider yourself excused": A formal or authoritative way of granting someone permission to leave or be exempt.
- You've heard the instructions, so consider yourselves excused.
Variants and Related Words
- Excuse (verb): To forgive or justify a fault; to release someone from a duty.
- Please excuse my tardiness.
- Excuse (noun): A reason or explanation given to justify a fault or failure.
- He gave a poor excuse for his absence.
- Inexcusable (adjective): Too bad to be justified or tolerated.
- His rude behavior was inexcusable.
Synonyms
- Exempted: Officially freed from an obligation or rule.
- Pardoned: Forgiven for an error or offense.
- Released: Allowed to leave or be free from a duty.
Related Phrases
- Excused absence: An official permission to be absent from school or work.
- The school requires a note for an excused absence.
- Stand excused: A formal declaration that someone is no longer required to be present or perform a duty.
- The witness may stand excused.
Adjective
- granted exemption
- one of the excused jurors planned to write a book