Definition for Busy:

• Earnestly, actively, or closely at work; characteristic of, or pertaining to, industry or diligence; as, the busy hum of the factory; bustling; full of employment; as, a busy day; meddlesome.

Synonyms for Busy:

• adj.

  •active (adjective)
  • industrious,
  • sedulous,
  • spirited,
  • enterprising,
  • tireless,
  • assiduous,
  • active,
  • dynamic,
  • quick,
  • moving,
  • vivacious,
  • energetic,
  • stirring,
  • eager,
  • bustling,
  • lively,
  • sprightly,
  • on the move,
  • hectic,
  • animated.
  •active, on the go (adjective)
  • energetic,
  • popping,
  • strenuous,
  • hectic,
  • full,
  • humming,
  • tiring,
  • bustling,
  • fussy,
  • busy as a beaver,
  • tireless,
  • restless,
  • lively.
  •all (adjective)
  • fussy.
  •engaged, at work (adjective)
  • tied up,
  • having a full plate,
  • having many irons in the fire,
  • active,
  • in the field,
  • having enough on one's plate,
  • with a customer,
  • already taken,
  • at it,
  • overloaded,
  • swamped,
  • on the go,
  • diligent,
  • buried,
  • having fish to fry,
  • assiduous,
  • in a meeting,
  • working,
  • occupied,
  • Hustling,
  • engaged,
  • in conference,
  • employed,
  • on assignment,
  • unavailable,
  • industrious,
  • in someone else's possession,
  • Slaving,
  • up to one's ears,
  • persevering,
  • Snowed,
  • engrossed,
  • in the laboratory.
  •hardworking (adjective)
  • industrious.
  •immersed (adjective)
  • taken up.
  •lively (adjective)
  • humming.
  •nosy, impertinent (adjective)
  • snoopy,
  • intrusive,
  • meddlesome,
  • interfering,
  • curious,
  • officious,
  • prying,
  • forward,
  • pushy,
  • inquisitive,
  • nebby,
  • stirring,
  • meddling,
  • obtrusive,
  • troublesome.
  •working (adjective)
  • in force,
  • employed.

• n.

  •
  • hard at it,
  • rushed.
  •
  • teeming,
  • bulging,
  • congested,
  • jammed,
  • full,
  • unavailable,
  • employed.
  •
  • hold up,
  • bumper-to-bumper,
  • cluttered,
  • gridlock,
  • elaborate,
  • ornate,
  • congestion.
  •
  • chintzy,
  • delicate,
  • bejeweled,
  • beaded.
  •
  • call,
  • caller,
  • crowded.
  •
  • employ.
  •busy (noun)
  • interfering,
  • occupied,
  • busybodied,
  • engaged,
  • meddlesome,
  • drudging,
  • fancy,
  • laboring,
  • officious,
  • labouring,
  • in use,
  • up to,
  • active,
  • occupy,
  • overbusy,
  • toiling,
  • tied up,
  • fussy,
  • meddling,
  • at work,
  • intrusive.
  •engaged (noun)
  • working,
  • Hustling,
  • involved,
  • employed.
  •officious (noun)
  • pushy,
  • curious,
  • forward,
  • prying,
  • obtrusive,
  • snoopy,
  • nosy.

• v.

  •social (verb)
  • occupy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fringed,
  • congested,
  • operational,
  • replete,
  • overcrowded,
  • frilly,
  • studded,
  • rushed,
  • bejeweled,
  • inlaid,
  • gridlock,
  • rococo,
  • telephony,
  • bumper-to-bumper,
  • Hustling,
  • busily,
  • Heaping,
  • florid,
  • chock-a-block,
  • floral,
  • jeweled,
  • bulging,
  • teeming,
  • plumed,
  • Crammed,
  • tooled,
  • cluttered.
  •
  • pneumatic,
  • rich,
  • hold up,
  • beaded,
  • riddled,
  • congestion,
  • subtle,
  • That,
  • intricate,
  • saturation.
  •
  • thickly,
  • caller,
  • chintzy,
  • saturated,
  • phone,
  • traffic,
  • fragile.
  •
  • crowded,
  • employ,
  • This.
  •
  • disconnect,
  • delicate.
  •
  • full.
  •
  • through.
  •
  • transfer.
  •
  • hold,
  • call.
  •
  • get.
  •engrossed
  • rapt.
  •industrious
  • up-and-coming,
  • studious.
  •occupy
  • hold attention.
  •thronged
  • jammed.
  •Other relevant words:
  • snoopy,
  • make a push,
  • admit,
  • block,
  • going on,
  • battle of life,
  • impertinent,
  • saturated,
  • promptly,
  • bumper-to-bumper,
  • intrude,
  • transfer,
  • bustle,
  • speedily,
  • vigilant,
  • overloaded,
  • detailed,
  • rich,
  • cylinder,
  • receive,
  • bejeweled,
  • absorb,
  • disconnect,
  • work,
  • Euphuistic,
  • luxurious,
  • snooper,
  • cross,
  • beaded,
  • nose,
  • harass,
  • at work,
  • confiscation,
  • prompt,
  • affianced,
  • go ahead,
  • call,
  • in use,
  • Busied,
  • spry,
  • overwrought,
  • dabble at,
  • pretentious,
  • grandiloquent,
  • frilly,
  • pneumatic,
  • enthusiastic,
  • affected,
  • get,
  • plumed,
  • obtrusive,
  • mobile,
  • congested,
  • flowery,
  • animatedly,
  • investigator,
  • convoluted,
  • plod,
  • convulsion,
  • zealous,
  • on assignment,
  • workable,
  • paul pry,
  • appropriation,
  • be active,
  • with a customer,
  • officious,
  • bestir oneself,
  • overelaborate,
  • blab,
  • arrest,
  • push,
  • keenly,
  • involved,
  • extravagant,
  • newsmonger,
  • call-back,
  • expeditiously,
  • push forward,
  • toll,
  • contemporary,
  • working,
  • crabby,
  • detention,
  • acting,
  • blabber,
  • persist,
  • enthrall,
  • divert,
  • overcrowded,
  • fine,
  • move,
  • having fish to fry,
  • ostentatious,
  • inlaid,
  • fascinate,
  • picturesque,
  • memorable,
  • abubble,
  • mistime,
  • distract,
  • employ,
  • ornate,
  • amuse,
  • mind the store,
  • in the field,
  • ardently,
  • nimbly,
  • interesting,
  • businesslike,
  • elaborate,
  • task,
  • taleteller,
  • meddlesome,
  • labouring,
  • diligent,
  • internment,
  • monopolize,
  • inhabit,
  • babbler,
  • come amiss,
  • operative,
  • forward,
  • hurried,
  • studious,
  • Overtask,
  • frenzied,
  • keep busy,
  • preoccupied,
  • mad,
  • on the move,
  • nosy,
  • gumshoe,
  • eventful,
  • pragmatical,
  • restless,
  • peg away,
  • over-active,
  • engaged,
  • current,
  • complex,
  • going,
  • in haste,
  • lay about one,
  • gingerbread,
  • use up,
  • tied up,
  • tattletale,
  • bespoken,
  • finicky,
  • rumormonger,
  • riotous,
  • operable,
  • overdone,
  • rouse oneself,
  • vehemently,
  • troublesome,
  • fraught,
  • official,
  • prepossess,
  • important,
  • instinct,
  • grip,
  • rococo,
  • brisk,
  • actively,
  • unavailable,
  • apply,
  • wrapped up,
  • overwork,
  • Energetical,
  • gossip,
  • jammed,
  • vigorous,
  • crabbed,
  • wheel,
  • attack,
  • interfering,
  • Overlabored,
  • take,
  • quick,
  • Pickthank,
  • noteworthy,
  • anxious,
  • enthusiast,
  • slow,
  • having many irons in the fire,
  • transitive,
  • functioning,
  • Quidnunc,
  • interest,
  • arabesque,
  • devote,
  • flamboyant,
  • on foot,
  • worry,
  • running,
  • expeditious,
  • busybody,
  • hummer,
  • betrothed,
  • sharply,
  • riddled,
  • finical,
  • persevering,
  • ill-tempered,
  • struggle,
  • carpe diem,
  • telephony,
  • grumpy,
  • full,
  • vehement,
  • beguile,
  • buzzing,
  • hustler,
  • caller,
  • pretty-pretty,
  • jobholding,
  • taken up,
  • bemuse,
  • brightly,
  • tooled,
  • up to,
  • activate,
  • having a full plate,
  • fiercely,
  • chock-a-block,
  • strive,
  • earnest,
  • accept,
  • Intriguer,
  • busy as a beaver,
  • practical,
  • phone,
  • spend,
  • intrusive,
  • make haste,
  • eagerly,
  • stir,
  • garish,
  • snoop,
  • highfalutin,
  • showy,
  • chaotic,
  • busybodied,
  • on the go,
  • conscientious,
  • intermeshed,
  • occupied,
  • This,
  • dick,
  • hifalutin,
  • have,
  • Overworked,
  • snarl-up,
  • sweat,
  • pompous,
  • thriving,
  • in conference,
  • soak,
  • be busy,
  • oppress,
  • fussy,
  • Betake,
  • fidgety,
  • rapidly,
  • earnestly,
  • briskly,
  • gaudy,
  • swamped,
  • hastily,
  • decorated,
  • studded,
  • florid,
  • functional,
  • rustler,
  • laboring,
  • devotee,
  • take over,
  • hasten,
  • agitated,
  • hold up,
  • self-appointed,
  • momentous,
  • possess,
  • gossiper,
  • already taken,
  • prying,
  • bombastic,
  • ornamented,
  • inquisitive,
  • apprehension,
  • lavish,
  • fringed,
  • in hand,
  • particular,
  • laboured,
  • nebby,
  • toil,
  • chichi,
  • operating,
  • toiling,
  • congestion,
  • telltale,
  • wave,
  • fervently,
  • dabble in,
  • enthusiastically,
  • lodge in,
  • quickly,
  • strenuous,
  • busily,
  • encroach,
  • swiftly,
  • saturation,
  • labor,
  • rapt,
  • in harness,
  • meddling,
  • complicated,
  • traffic,
  • in the laboratory,
  • hold,
  • early,
  • attach,
  • bloke,
  • byzantine,
  • opportunity,
  • entertain,
  • passionately,
  • busyness,
  • gridlock,
  • popping,
  • That,
  • pass the time,
  • wild,
  • scandalmonger,
  • delicate,
  • flatfoot,
  • roller,
  • tiring,
  • BUSIER,
  • tie,
  • absorbed,
  • crowded,
  • busy bee,
  • readily,
  • roll,
  • burden,
  • fragile,
  • nimble,
  • dabble with,
  • reside,
  • Crammed,
  • busiest,
  • Pottering,
  • rushed,
  • Ossianic,
  • signal,
  • in someone else's possession,
  • tattler,
  • fancy,
  • at it,
  • workaday,
  • floral,
  • occupy,
  • engrossed,
  • in action,
  • alive,
  • make progress,
  • raise up,
  • attachment,
  • frenetic,
  • speed,
  • zealot,
  • curler,
  • having enough on one's plate,
  • intricate,
  • granny,
  • significant,
  • professional,
  • agitation,
  • precipitately,
  • swarming,
  • happening,
  • hardworking,
  • moresque,
  • affect,
  • make a fuss,
  • preoccupy,
  • dip into,
  • in a meeting,
  • pushing,
  • overbusy,
  • excited,
  • housewife,
  • physical,
  • in force,
  • seize,
  • Heaping,
  • baroque,
  • subtle,
  • pushy,
  • detective,
  • on hand,
  • hurriedly,
  • up-and-coming,
  • through,
  • blabberer,
  • hard at it,
  • teeming,
  • Hustling,
  • astir,
  • grouchy,
  • cluttered,
  • hectic,
  • engage,
  • chatterer,
  • taken,
  • overtax,
  • bulging,
  • tabby,
  • fag,
  • fulsome,
  • involve,
  • humming,
  • employed,
  • frantic,
  • agile,
  • hyperactive,
  • thickly,
  • invade,
  • on the job,
  • dabble,
  • high-flown,
  • tax,
  • hold attention,
  • luxuriant,
  • seizure,
  • presumptuous,
  • grab,
  • elegant,
  • afoot,
  • engross,
  • on the run,
  • Overelegant,
  • High-wrought,
  • drive,
  • talebearer,
  • Intermeddler,
  • overdrive,
  • exciting,
  • fill,
  • buried,
  • jeweled,
  • assumption,
  • consequential,
  • notable,
  • operational,
  • feverish,
  • replete,
  • drudging,
  • up to one's ears,
  • curious,
  • indefatigable,
  • Slaving,
  • labored,
  • laborious,
  • chintzy,
  • grandiose,
  • catch,
  • painstaking,
  • immerse,
  • Snowed,
  • meddler,
  • live,
  • play at,
  • cock,
  • tie up,
  • ictus,
  • dwell,
  • zealously.

Antonyms for Busy:

• adj.

  • all
    idle.
  • engaged, at work
    quiet, unemployed, idle, unoccupied, lazy, inactive, unbusy, unengaged.
  • Other antonyms:
    reserved, asleep, restrained, heavy, subdued, reclusive, hands-off, not intrusive, plain, unintrusive, passive, silent, inhibited, lifeless, uninvolved, retiring, quiet, sluggish, taciturn, unobtrusive, withdrawn, reticent, nonoperating.

Homophones for Busy:

• Bizzy.