Синоним слову busy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. busy

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people’s business.

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. busyadjective

   actively or fully engaged or occupied

   «busy with her work»; «a busy man»; «too busy to eat lunch»

   Synonyms:
   in use(p), busybodied, meddling, meddlesome, interfering, engaged, officious, fussy

   Antonyms:
   not intrusive, bone-idle, unoccupied, faineant, slothful, unintrusive, bone-lazy, lazy, work-shy, otiose, inactive, idle, unengaged, leisured, plain, lackadaisical, indolent

2. busy, fussyadjective

   overcrowded or cluttered with detail

   «a busy painting»; «a fussy design»

   Synonyms:
   engaged, busybodied, particular, meddlesome, picky, in use(p), interfering, busy, meddling, finical, cross, bad-tempered, grumpy, grouchy, crabby, crabbed, finicky, fussy, officious, ill-tempered

   Antonyms:
   lazy, plain, not intrusive, lackadaisical, idle, indolent, work-shy, slothful, leisured, unoccupied, bone-idle, bone-lazy, unengaged, faineant, otiose, unintrusive, inactive

3. interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodiedadjective

   intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

   «an interfering old woman»; «bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself»; «busy about other people’s business»

   Synonyms:
   interfering, busybodied, meddling, meddlesome, fussy, engaged, officious, busy, in use(p)

   Antonyms:
   work-shy, not intrusive, unoccupied, otiose, slothful, lackadaisical, lazy, faineant, bone-idle, idle, plain, indolent, unengaged, leisured, unintrusive, bone-lazy, inactive

4. busyadjective

   crowded with or characterized by much activity

   «a very busy week»; «a busy life»; «a busy street»; «a busy seaport»

   Synonyms:
   in use(p), busybodied, meddling, meddlesome, interfering, engaged, officious, fussy

   Antonyms:
   not intrusive, lackadaisical, leisured, lazy, faineant, slothful, inactive, work-shy, idle, unintrusive, plain, bone-idle, unoccupied, bone-lazy, unengaged, indolent, otiose

5. busy, engaged, in use(p)verb

   (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»; «receptionists’ telephones are always engaged»; «the lavatory is in use»; «kept getting a busy signal»

   Antonyms:
   slothful, idle, unoccupied, work-shy, plain, inactive, not intrusive, unengaged, otiose, lackadaisical, bone-idle, indolent, faineant, lazy, bone-lazy, unintrusive, leisured

6. busy, occupyverb

   keep busy with

   «She busies herself with her butterfly collection»

   Synonyms:
   take, invade, reside, occupy, engage, lodge in, concern, worry, use up, engross, busy, interest, fill, absorb

   Antonyms:
   plain, otiose, indolent, unengaged, faineant, slothful, idle, work-shy, bone-idle, unintrusive, bone-lazy, inactive, unoccupied, lazy, leisured, lackadaisical, not intrusive

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. non-availability

   free is an antonym of non-availability, so busy will be a synonym for non-availability.

   Submitted by anonymous on August 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. busyadjective

   Synonyms:
   diligent, assiduous, industrious, sedulous, notable, active, working, hard-working, at work; diligently employed, engaged, or occupied

2. busyadjective

   Synonyms:
   brisk, stirring, bustling, nimble, agile, SPRY, constantly in motion

3. busyadjective

   Synonyms:
   meddling, officious, importunate

4. busyverb

   Synonyms:
   occupy, employ, make busy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. busyadjective

   Synonyms:
   occupied, engaged, employed, engrossed, diligent, industrious, sedulous, active, intrusive, officious, meddlesome

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1. Robert E. Miller:

   My mind is so busy that my thoughts and ideas have to take a number and get in line.

2. Ismail Olad:

   I heard a huge crash at the busy junction and as I ran, I heard another blast at a restaurant ahead of me. The whole place was covered by smoke.

3. John Kennedy:

   I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me.

4. Amelia Tank:

   When I have a busy day with back-to-back meetings, you go for a session and it’s completely relaxing. It also separates home life from work life.

5. Ali Alsanai:

   Just small talk, i wasn’t really paying attention because I was busy that day.

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