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FURNISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furnished mean? 

FURNISHED (adjective)
  The adjective FURNISHED has 1 sense:

1. provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)play

  Familiarity information: FURNISHED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FURNISHED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)

Synonyms:

equipped; furnished

Context example:

a completely furnished toolbox

Similar:

appointed (provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind))

fitted out; outfitted (furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation)

stocked; stocked with (furnished with more than enough)

volumed (furnished with volumes)

well-appointed; well-found (having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings)

Domain category:

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Antonym:

unfurnished (not equipped with what is needed especially furniture)


 Context examples 


Joe ran the tiler, a machine wherein a hot iron was hooked on a steel string which furnished the pressure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have been living in a furnished apartment since then, and the Mortimers have been very private indeed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the centre, on which several German books were scattered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of late I have been tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature rather than those more superficial ones for which our artificial state of society is responsible.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a scantily furnished room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One was a dining-room, severely furnished and containing nothing of interest.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Dashwood took the house for a twelvemonth; it was ready furnished, and she might have immediate possession.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was nothing to raise her spirits in the confined and scantily furnished chamber that she was to share with Susan.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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