Synonyms of the word busy


BUSYACTIVE - DILIGENT - DRUDGING - EMPLOYED - ENGAGED - FANCY - FUSSY - INTERFERING - INTRUSIVE - LABORING - LABOURING - MEDDLESOME - MEDDLING - OCCUPIED - OCCUPY - OFFICIOUS - OVERBUSY - TOILING - WORK

busy

  • adj. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
  • adj. Engaged in activity or by someone else.
  • adj. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
  • adj. Officious; meddling.
  • v. (transitive) To make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
  • v. (transitive) To rush somebody.
  • n. (slang, Britain, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.

active

  • adj. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed…
  • adj. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
  • adj. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct.
  • adj. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; — opposed to dull, sluggish,…
  • adj. Requiring or implying action or exertion;—opposed to sedentary or to tranquil.
  • adj. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical.
  • adj. Brisk; lively.
  • adj. Implying or producing rapid action.
  • adj. (heading, grammar) About verbs.
  • adj. (gay sexual slang) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than…
  • n. A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting.

diligent

  • adj. Performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard.

drudging

  • v. present participle of drudge.

employed

  • adj. In a job; working.
  • adj. Used; in use.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of employ.

engaged

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of engage.
  • adj. Agreed to be married.
  • adj. Busy or employed.
  • adj. (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
  • adj. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway.
  • adj. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation.
  • adj. (military) being attacked or attacking.

fancy

  • n. The imagination.
  • n. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea.
  • n. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; an impression.
  • n. A whim.
  • n. Love or amorous attachment.
  • n. The object of inclination or liking.
  • n. Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
  • n. The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
  • n. A diamond with a distinctive colour.
  • n. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
  • n. (obsolete) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
  • n. In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
  • adj. Decorative.
  • adj. Of a superior grade.
  • adj. Executed with skill.
  • adj. (colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated.
  • adj. (obsolete) Extravagant; above real value.
  • v. (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
  • v. (Britain) would like.
  • v. (Britain, informal) To be sexually attracted to.
  • v. (dated) To imagine, suppose.
  • v. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
  • v. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.

fussy

  • adj. Anxious or particular about petty details.
  • adj. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).

interfering

  • v. present participle of interfere.
  • n. interference.

intrusive

  • adj. Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without…
  • adj. (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks…
  • n. (geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.

laboring

  • v. (US) present participle of labor.
  • n. The act of one who labors; toil; work done.

labouring

  • v. (Britain, Canada) present participle of labour.
  • n. The act of one who labours; toil; work done.

meddlesome

  • adj. Characterised or marked by meddling; inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's…

meddling

  • adj. That meddles.
  • n. Action of the verb meddle.
  • v. present participle of meddle.

occupied

  • adj. Reserved, engaged.
  • adj. Busy, unavailable.
  • adj. Subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of occupy.

occupy

  • v. (transitive) To take or use time.
  • v. (transitive) To take or use space.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
  • v. (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.

officious

  • adj. (obsolete) obliging, attentive, eager to please.
  • adj. Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.

overbusy

  • adj. Excessively busy; officious.
  • v. (transitive) To busy or involve (oneself) too thoroughly in something.

toiling

  • v. present participle of toil.
  • n. Hard work.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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