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1. Actively or fully engaged or occupied
   "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"
    
2. Overcrowded or cluttered with detail
   "a busy painting";
   - fussy
    
3. Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
   "busy about other people's business";
   - interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busybodied
    
4. Crowded with or characterized by much activity
   "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
    
5. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability
   "her line is busy"; "kept getting a busy signal";
   - engaged, in use

1. Keep busy with
   "She busies herself with her butterfly collection";
   - occupy

Derived forms: busier, busying, busied, busiest, busies

See also: action-packed, active, at work, diligent, drudging, employed, engaged, fancy, intrusive, laboring [US], labouring [Brit, Cdn], occupied, overbusy, tied up, toiling, up to

Type of: work

Antonym: idle

Encyclopedia: Busy, Kentucky