Busy

Quick meaning: Busy is an adjective meaning Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

Meaning

Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

More Meanings

1. Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
2. Having much work to do; having much to get done.
3. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
4. Officious; meddling.
5. (transitive, usually reflexive) To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
6. (slang, UK, Liverpool, derogatory) A police officer.

Example Sentences

To-morrow is a busy day.

He is busy with piano practice.

Her telephone has been busy all day.

Be careful crossing that busy street.

Word Forms

• busier
• busiest
• busie
• busies
• busying
• busied

Synonyms for busy

Depending on context, synonyms include swamped, heavy, fancy, active, engaged, intrusive.

Antonyms for busy

Common opposites include idle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overbusy, laboring, toiling, labouring, meddlesome, interfering.

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