adjective
- Involved in activity or work: busy, employed, engaged. See action/inaction.
occupied
Did you mean: occupied, occupied, occupy, Military occupation, Occupied (1997 Album by U.K. Subs)
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adj
Definition: busy
Antonyms: free, idle, inactive, not busy, unoccupied
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IN BRIEF: To take up ones attention.
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
— Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer, longtime resident in France.
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The adjective has 4 meanings:
Meaning #1:
held or filled or in use
Antonym: unoccupied (meaning #1)
Meaning #2:
seized and controlled as by military invasion
Antonym: unoccupied (meaning #2)
Meaning #3:
resided in; having tenants
Synonym: tenanted
Meaning #4:
having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
Synonym: engaged
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Did you mean: occupied, occupied, occupy, Military occupation, Occupied (1997 Album by U.K. Subs)
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