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busy
Overview of verb busy
The verb busy has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) busy, occupy -- (keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection")
Overview of adj busy
The adj busy has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (30) busy -- (actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy")
2. (1) busy, fussy -- (overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design")
3. (1) interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied -- (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")
4. (1) busy -- (crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport")
5. busy, engaged, in use -- ((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")
Grep of noun busy
busy bee
busybody
busyness
busywork
Antonyms of verb busy
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb busy
1 sense of busy
Sense 1
busy, occupy
=> work
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb busy
1 sense of busy
Sense 1
busy, occupy
=> potter, putter
=> dabble, smatter, play around
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb busy
1 sense of busy
Sense 1
busy, occupy
=> work
'Cause To' of verb busy
Derived Forms of verb busy
Domain of verb busy
Domain Terms of verb busy
Familiarity of verb busy
busy used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb busy
1 sense of busy
Sense 1
busy, occupy
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s somebody PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb busy
1 sense of busy
Sense 1
busy, occupy
> work
=> work through, run through, go through
=> putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
=> carpenter
=> clerk
=> page
=> wait, waitress
=> pull one's weight
=> electioneer
=> assist
=> beaver, beaver away
=> work at, work on
=> plug away, peg away, slog, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel
=> busy, occupy
=> collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together
=> volunteer
=> specialize, specialise
=> minister
=> intern
=> skipper
=> boondoggle
=> skimp, scant
=> serve
=> work
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb busy
Sense 1
busy, occupy
=> work
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Grep of verb busy
busy
Antonyms of adj busy
5 senses of busy
Sense 1
busy (vs. idle)
idle (vs. busy)
=> bone-idle, bone-lazy
=> faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
=> lackadaisical
=> leisured
=> unengaged
Sense 2
busy, fussy
INDIRECT (VIA fancy) -> plain
Sense 3
interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied
INDIRECT (VIA intrusive) -> unintrusive, not intrusive
Sense 4
busy
INDIRECT (VIA active) -> inactive
Sense 5
busy, engaged, in use(predicate)
INDIRECT (VIA occupied) -> unoccupied
Similarity of adj busy
5 senses of busy
Sense 1
busy (vs. idle)
=> at work(predicate)
=> drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling
=> engaged, occupied
=> overbusy
=> tied up(predicate)
=> up to
Also See> diligent#2; employed#1
Sense 2
busy, fussy
=> fancy (vs. plain)
Sense 3
interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied
=> intrusive (vs. unintrusive)
Sense 4
busy
=> active (vs. inactive)
Sense 5
busy, engaged, in use(predicate)
=> occupied (vs. unoccupied)
Pertainyms of adj busy
Attributes of adj busy
Domain of adj busy
Domain Terms of adj busy
Familiarity of adj busy
busy used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =5)
Grep of adj busy
busy
busybodied
overbusy
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