busy

Plural: busies

Verb

Verb Forms: busied, busying, busies

• To make someone or something busy; to occupy or engage.
• keep busy with
• To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.

Adjective

• Engaged in activity; occupied or not at leisure.
• actively or fully engaged or occupied
  • "busy with her work"
  • "a busy man"
  • "too busy to eat lunch"

Adjective Satellite

• overcrowded or cluttered with detail
  • "a busy painting"
• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  • "busy about other people's business"
• crowded with or characterized by much activity
  • "a very busy week"
  • "a busy life"
  • "a busy street"
  • "a busy seaport"
• (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
  • "her line is busy"
  • "kept getting a busy signal"

Adj

• Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
• Engaged in activity or by someone else; bustling.
• Having much work to do; having much to get done.
• Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
• Officious; meddling.

Noun

• A police officer.

Examples

• Be careful crossing that busy street.
• Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
• Go away, I’m busy sleeping!
• He is busy with piano practice.
• He tried to BUSY his opponent with short, defensive plays, while waiting for a bingo.
• Her telephone has been busy all day.
• His opponent was too BUSY calculating points to notice the open triple word score.
• On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
• Ramzi is busy getting ready for meetings.
• The director cannot see you now: he's busy.

Synonyms

busybodied, engaged, fussy, in use, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, occupy, officious, swamped

Antonyms

idle

Anagrams of busy