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Busy   /bˈɪzi/   Listen
Busy

adjective
1.
Actively or fully engaged or occupied.  "A busy man" , "Too busy to eat lunch"  Antonym: idle.
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



... they returned briskly, frightened at the sounds of carriages rolling in the distance. They often went out after that, and chose in preference the paths near the pond of Madrid where, behind sheltering shrubs, they sat talking and listening to the busy hum of Parisian life, seemingly so ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... work in airnest—I had nothin' much in view But to drownd out rickollections—and it kep' me busy, too! But I slowly thrived and prospered, tel Mother used to say She expected yit to see me ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley
... ghost, for after the first few days her mind wandered painfully, and his presence excited her dangerously. For weeks he vacillated between perfunctory work at the office, unsatisfactory talks with busy doctors and impatient nurses, and long apprehensive hours in what had been home. In "Little Venice," in the best powder-blue jar and the rest, he found no solace, on the contrary, the occasion of revolting suggestions. There was an imp that whispered that ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... with the idea of a garden floating on a bed of rushes; and that is capillary attraction, which would raise particles of water, one by one, among the fibres of the rushes until the frail raft on which the earth rested was saturated; and still pressing upward, the busy drops would penetrate the superincumbent earth, moistening and adding to the specific gravity of the garden by filling the porous earth until it became too heavy to float, if it ...
— Mexico and its Religion • Robert A. Wilson
... Railroads, long almost completely forbidden, gained free "right of way," and promised in the near future to traverse the country far and wide. Steamers ploughed their way for a thousand miles up the Yang-tse-Kiang; engineers became busy exploiting the coal and iron mines of the Flowery Kingdom; great factories, equipped with the best modern machinery, sprang up in the foreign settlements; foreign books began to be translated and read; and the empress even went so ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall


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