busy

• (a) actively or fully engaged or occupied
  • busy with her work
  • a busy man
  • too busy to eat lunch
• (s) overcrowded or cluttered with detail
  • a busy painting
  • a fussy design
  fussy,
• (s) 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
  busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious,
• (s) crowded with or characterized by much activity
  • a very busy week
  • a busy life
  • a busy street
  • a busy seaport
• (s) (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
  in use, engaged,

Verbs

• (v) keep busy with
  • She busies herself with her butterfly collection
  occupy,

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Words of close approximity