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Synonyms for busy
ˈbɪz ibusy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 awakeAntonyms:
dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupidPreposition:
Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
busy
Synonyms:
industrious, diligent, assiduous, engaged, occupiedAntonyms:
idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, unoccupied
Princeton's WordNet
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, fussyAntonyms:
not intrusive, bone-idle, unoccupied, faineant, slothful, unintrusive, bone-lazy, lazy, work-shy, otiose, inactive, idle, unengaged, leisured, plain, lackadaisical, indolentbusy, fussyadjective
overcrowded or cluttered with detail
"a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
Synonyms:
engaged, busybodied, particular, meddlesome, picky, in use(p), interfering, meddling, finical, cross, bad-tempered, grumpy, grouchy, crabby, crabbed, finicky, fussy, officious, ill-temperedAntonyms:
lazy, plain, not intrusive, lackadaisical, idle, indolent, work-shy, slothful, leisured, unoccupied, bone-idle, bone-lazy, unengaged, faineant, otiose, unintrusive, inactiveinterfering, 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, in use(p)Antonyms:
work-shy, not intrusive, unoccupied, otiose, slothful, lackadaisical, lazy, faineant, bone-idle, idle, plain, indolent, unengaged, leisured, unintrusive, bone-lazy, inactivebusyadjective
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, fussyAntonyms:
not intrusive, lackadaisical, leisured, lazy, faineant, slothful, inactive, work-shy, idle, unintrusive, plain, bone-idle, unoccupied, bone-lazy, unengaged, indolent, otiosebusy, 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, leisuredbusy, occupyverb
keep busy with
"She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
Synonyms:
take, invade, reside, occupy, engage, lodge in, concern, worry, use up, engross, interest, fill, absorbAntonyms:
plain, otiose, indolent, unengaged, faineant, slothful, idle, work-shy, bone-idle, unintrusive, bone-lazy, inactive, unoccupied, lazy, leisured, lackadaisical, not intrusive
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Editors Contribution
non-availability
free is an antonym of non-availability, so busy will be a synonym for non-availability.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
busyadjective
Synonyms:
diligent, assiduous, industrious, sedulous, notable, active, working, hard-working, at work; diligently employed, engaged, or occupiedbusyadjective
Synonyms:
brisk, stirring, bustling, nimble, agile, SPRY, constantly in motionbusyadjective
Synonyms:
meddling, officious, importunatebusyverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "busy":
occupied, crowded, heavy, peak, overcrowded, congested, congestion
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Busy":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#246 | take | |
#534 | mobile | |
#653 | interest | |
#934 | quick | |
#954 | active | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1113 | particular | |
#1292 | ready | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#2291 | fill | |
#2450 | alert | |
#3039 | peak | |
#3115 | concern | |
#4087 | busy | |
#5005 | worry | |
#5300 | engaged | |
#6220 | engage | |
#6394 | prompt | |
#6605 | occupied | |
#11728 | congestion | |
#12285 | lively | |
#13224 | crowded | |
#14373 | energetic | |
#14382 | reside | |
#15816 | absorb | |
#15899 | occupy | |
#18495 | restless | |
#18644 | agile | |
#19156 | vigorous | |
#21460 | invade | |
#24266 | interfering | |
#29634 | supple | |
#30373 | grumpy | |
#30505 | brisk | |
#30597 | diligent | |
#31151 | bustling | |
#32099 | picky | |
#35135 | congested | |
#42715 | fussy | |
#43127 | overcrowded | |
#44422 | nimble | |
#44884 | expeditious | |
#51813 | meddling | |
#52872 | industrious | |
#64017 | spry | |
#65060 | crabby | |
#66650 | grouchy | |
#87747 | finicky | |
#91697 | sprightly | |
#128863 | assiduous | |
#131319 | officious | |
#187765 | meddlesome | |
#233923 | engross | |
#251752 | crabbed |
How to use busy in a sentence?
Unfortunately, in a nutshell, it looks like it’s going to be another busy season, we’re seeing a lot of drought. Almost half of the country is experiencing drought, and the bulk of that is to the West.
So if your bus was running late at Disney, he was busy taking pictures of himself and talking trash to what he thought was a little girl.
I can't get away from food and I love to eat. Of course, it crept up on me through the years especially during covid so starting in January I decided to get busy and lose some weight.
We checked them to make sure that they were still going to protect us if we needed to use them, we have some kind of on-orbit training that covers the descent procedures, so we're fresh with those. We talked to the specialists on the ground about all operations from the time we close the hatch until the time we get pulled out of the Soyuz. So, it's a pretty busy time. It's important, clearly, when you're coming back from space that we get everything right.
All the other sellers -- they are so busy, so just convincing them to go near the river to get their portrait done and spend maybe 15 minutes of their time was a challenge, because every minute they're not standing in the flower (market), they lose money.
Translations for busy
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- besigAfrikaans
- مشغولArabic
- məşğulAzerbaijani
- деен, занимавам, заетBulgarian
- ocupatCatalan, Valencian
- zaměstnávat, rušný, zaměstnaný, zaneprázděnýCzech
- prysurWelsh
- travlDanish
- besetzt, beschäftigtGerman
- πολυάσχολοςGreek
- okupataEsperanto
- ocupado, complicadoSpanish
- toimekasEstonian
- مشغولPersian
- puuhailla, työntäyteinen, levoton, varattu, kiireinen, askaroida, sekava, hoputtaa, työllistääFinnish
- occupé, livrerFrench
- besetWestern Frisian
- gnóthachIrish
- trangScottish Gaelic
- trangGalician
- עָסוּק, עסוקהHebrew
- मशग़ूल, व्यस्त, मसरूफ़Hindi
- foglaltHungarian
- զբաղվածArmenian
- sibukIndonesian
- okupataIdo
- upptekinnIcelandic
- occupatoItalian
- 忙しい, 繁華, 使用中Japanese
- დაკავებულიGeorgian
- 바쁜Korean
- occupatus, operosusLatin
- užsiėmusiamLithuanian
- nodarbinātsLatvian
- toritoriMāori
- завгүйMongolian
- druk, bezigDutch
- opptatt, travelNorwegian
- skomplikowany, zajętyPolish
- اخته, بوختPashto, Pushto
- ocupadoPortuguese
- harnic, ocupatRomanian
- занятый, деятельный, занятойRussian
- наметљив, prometan, прометан, nametljivSerbo-Croatian
- činnýSlovak
- zaposlenSlovene
- zënëAlbanian
- livlig, upptagen, flitig, [[livligt]] [[trafikerad]], jäktigSwedish
- biziSwahili
- బిజీగాTelugu
- ไม่ว่าง, ยุ่งวุ่นวายThai
- okupadoTagalog
- meşgulTurkish
- ayighiUyghur, Uighur
- зайнятийUkrainian
- مصروف, مشغولUrdu
- bận rộnVietnamese
- farnumenYiddish
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