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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



... too vast for your limited faculties,' it says; 'yield not yourself to the babble of the running stream. Leave the ocean, which cares nothing for you or any living thing that walks the solid earth; leave the river, too busy with its own errand, too talkative about its own affairs, and find peace with me, whose smile will cheer you, whose whisper will soothe you. Come to me when the morning sun blazes across my bosom like a golden baldric; come to me in the still midnight, when I hold the inverted firmament like a cup ...
— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... from the properties as soon as they have been fairly started and I have been only consulting engineer for the Molly. I've been busy on preliminary work. The engineer he brought from New York has been in actual charge. That was all right. I'm comparatively a kid. But I know what is going on generally in Casey Town. There have been no more strikes, for one thing; the ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
... PUNCHINELLO:—You were so good as to prescribe a hot pitch plaster for the baby's mouth. Next day I took the prescription to your office, but failed to get it made up, as the devil, they told me, was busy. Will you please inform me when you will be at leisure? ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, Issue 10 • Various
... their hearth, had been kindled and were fed by human hands only, and were ever liable to die out. The fuel that kept them burning was the best that earth afforded, but the supply had its inherent limitations. Each new tranquil day increased the habitual sense of security. Graham was busy with plans of a large agricultural enterprise in Virginia. The more he saw of Henry Anderson the more he appreciated his sterling integrity and fine business capabilities, and from being an agent he had become a partner. ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... the weary and outworn sleep of the wretched while those sweet and soothing visions were still busy at her heart? And if so, breathes there one who would have roused her, whatever may have been her faults, from ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe


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