busy

Adjective
  1. Actively or fully engaged or occupied (synset 300293803)
    "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"
    also:
    • diligent - characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks
    • employed - having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary
    similar to:
  2. Overcrowded or cluttered with detail (synset 301799712)
    "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
    similar to: fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented
    same as: fussy
  3. Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner (synset 301355409)
    "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
    similar to: intrusive - tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)
    same as: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious
  4. Crowded with or characterized by much activity (synset 300036091)
    "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
    similar to: active - full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
  5. (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) (synset 301627541)
    "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
    similar to: occupied - held or filled or in use
    same as: engaged, in use
Verb
  1. Keep busy with (synset 202420961)
    "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
    is a type of: work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
    subtypes:
    same as: occupy

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