Busy chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure. Actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime. See examples of busy used in a sentence. If you are busy, you are working hard, or giving your attention to a particular thing The director cannot see you now Her telephone has been busy all day
He is busy with piano practice Ramzi is busy getting ready for meetings. Actively and attentively engaged, esp He's busy and can't see you (of a telephone line) in use When you are busy, you are working hard or concentrating on a task, so that you are not free to do anything else
• dennis had a very busy schedule with all of these commitments Busy road • for this reason, start by choosing a relatively quiet environment rather than a busy road. Busy, diligent, industrious imply active or earnest effort to accomplish something, or a habitual attitude of such earnestness Busy means actively employed, temporarily or habitually Some common synonyms of busy are assiduous, diligent, industrious, and sedulous While all these words mean actively engaged or occupied, busy chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure.
Discover everything about the word busy in english • while steve was busying himself john asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting • i was not prepared to contemplate such an inconvenient find, so i busied myself elsewhere • so we busy ourselves about the house or go on holiday in much the same way as we do our jobs. Find 586 different ways to say busy, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at thesaurus.com. View the menu for busy baking in hawthorne, ca
Diligent suggests earnest and constant effort or application, and usually connotes fondness for, or enjoyment of, what one is doing
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