What are some opposite words for preoccupied?
Antonyms for preoccupied
priˈɒk yəˌpaɪdpre·oc·cu·pied
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term preoccupied.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
preoccupied
As regards mental action, absorbed, abstracted, and preoccupied refer to the cause, absent or absent-minded to the effect. The man absorbed in one thing will appear absent in others. A preoccupied person may seem listless and thoughtless, but the really listless and thoughtless have not mental energy to be preoccupied. The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere. One who is preoccupied is intensely busy in thought; one may be absent-minded either through intense concentration or simply through inattention, with fitful and aimless wandering of thought. Compare ABSTRACT.
Antonyms:
alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awakeSynonyms:
absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, listless, negligent, oblivious, thoughtless
Princeton's WordNet
bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupiedadjective
deeply absorbed in thought
"as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"
Antonyms:
unconcerned, thoughtlesshaunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)adjective
having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
"became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"
Antonyms:
thoughtless, unconcerned
How to use preoccupied in a sentence?
Starting last year- since my husband got diagnosed -Ive been on a strange journey. Paddling a canoe in a stormy sea. My boys are in the back, scared but preoccupied. Sometimes the waves are smaller and easier to navigate, some days I lose my paddle and waves threaten to overwhelm. But I know my purpose is to get myself and my kids to safety, to the beach.
For anybody who’s ever taught in a classroom, the idea is to get the conversation flowing, and you can’t do that if you’re preoccupied with which side of the line are you going to be on, that is a chilling effect, and that is every bit as offensive to the First Amendment as a direct ban.
Countries sometimes do become preoccupied with their internal political issues and they don't get around dealing with external debt problem until it becomes messy.
To the extent that smoking or other drug use alters how this system functions normally can have impacts on behavior that increase the likelihood that one continues to use drugs or has difficulty in quitting drug use, dopamine regulation of motivation for instance, is likely involved in the tendency of drug users to be overly preoccupied with drug use.
No one man is in charge. It’s a negotiating team, sometimes the India team does get preoccupied by having to fend off all these attacks, but they will not buckle under finger pointing from a small group of Western countries.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1292 | ready | |
#2450 | alert | |
#6394 | prompt | |
#14493 | thoughtful | |
#24291 | attentive | |
#40280 | preoccupied | |
#63892 | thoughtless | |
#68910 | unconcerned |
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