Synonyms for busy
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
Be careful crossing that busy street.
- adj. 2
Officious; meddling.
- adj. 3
Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
Go away, I’m busy sleeping!
- adj. 4
Having much work to do; having much to get done.
Related words
- Word family
- business
- Phrases
- busy bee get busy busy beaver busy loop busy signal busy wait fast busy signal keep someone busy
Choose the right word
Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- active Mrs Klein is over 80, but she's still very active.
By length
- 5 letters
- heavy2, fancy2, brisk1, fussy2
- 6 letters
- active2
- 7 letters
- working2, engaged2, swamped1
- 8 letters
- employed2, occupied3, meddling3, bustling3, diligent3, sedulous
- 9 letters
- elaborate3, intrusive3, engrossed2, officious, assiduous3
- 10 letters
- meddlesome3
- 11 letters
- industrious4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heavy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- occupé
- Italiano
- occupato
- Español
- ocupado
- Deutsch
- beschäftigt