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Busy   /bˈɪzi/   Listen
Busy

adjective
1.
Actively or fully engaged or occupied.  "A busy man" , "Too busy to eat lunch"
2.
Overcrowded or cluttered with detail.  Synonym: fussy.  "A fussy design"
3.
Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner.  Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious.  "Bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself" , "Busy about other people's business"
4.
Crowded with or characterized by much activity.  "A busy life" , "A busy street" , "A busy seaport"
5.
(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).  Synonyms: engaged, in use.  "Receptionists' telephones are always engaged" , "The lavatory is in use" , "Kept getting a busy signal"
verb
(past & past part. busied; pres. part. busying)
1.
Keep busy with.  Synonym: occupy.



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"Busy" Quotes from Famous Books



... stood two days after his car had made its public appearance, and Bones sat confronting the busy pages of his ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... of nine every weekday morning Aunt Frances dropped whatever else she was doing, took Elizabeth Ann's little, thin, white hand protectingly in hers, and led her through the busy streets to the big brick school-building where the little girl had always gone to school. It was four stories high, and when all the classes were in session there were six hundred children under that one roof. You ...
— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield
... Winthrop and his colleagues in relations with numerous persons destined to act busy parts in the stirring times that were approaching—with Brereton and Hewson, afterward two of the Parliamentary major-generals; with Philip Nye, who helped Sir Henry Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the ...
— Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II - The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562--1733 • Various
... (q. v.), with whom he co-operated in founding the Secession Church; his sermons and religious poems, called "Gospel Sonnets," were widely read; one of the first of the Scotch seceders, strange to contemplate, "a long, soft, poke-shaped face, with busy anxious black eyes, looking as if he could not help it; and then such a character and form of human existence, conscience living to the finger ends of him, in a strange, venerable, though highly questionable manner ... his formulas casing him all round like the ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... time. My back hair and the pricking of my thumbs warn me that your dearly beloved spooks are combining to put up some sort of a spooking job on us. I hope Yee Kee has a plentiful supply of joss-sticks to stand 'em off, if they get too busy ...
— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright


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