What is another word for busy?
1060 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈɪzi], [ bˈɪzi], [ b_ˈɪ_z_i]Table of Contents
Similar words for busy:- active (adjective)
- active, on the go (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- assiduous (adjective)
- contracted (adjective)
- diligent (adjective)
- earnest (adjective)
- elaborate (adjective)
- employed (adjective)
- engaged, at work (adjective)
- engrossed (adjective)
- enterprising (adjective)
- florid (adjective)
- hired (adjective)
- humming (adjective)
- immersed (adjective)
- industrious (adjective)
- jammed (adjective)
- meddlesome (adjective)
- nosy, impertinent (adjective)
- obtrusive (adjective)
- occupied (adjective)
- officious (adjective)
- on duty (adjective)
- ornate (adjective)
- rapt (adjective)
- rousing (adjective)
- studious (adjective)
- traveled (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- working (adjective)
- busy (noun)
- on duty (noun)
- engage (verb)
- engross (verb)
- occupy (verb)
- other synonyms
- diligent
- engaged
- occupy
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Busy:
adj.
•active (adjective)- moving,
- quickest,
- vivacious,
- perky,
- energetic,
- eager,
- bustling,
- tireless,
- fireball,
- quick,
- on the move,
- industrious,
- lively,
- forcible,
- hyper,
- hectic,
- spirited,
- animated,
- hard-working,
- stirring,
- dynamic,
- sprightly.
- busy.
- un flagging,
- ex acting,
- steady,
- ex-acting,
- un tiring,
- more plugging,
- most plugging,
- un-tiring,
- un-flagging.
- more persisting,
- steadfast,
- persistent,
- Operose,
- most persisting,
- grindest,
- more diligent,
- un-relenting,
- un relenting.
- more many-faceted,
- most manyfaceted,
- over-done,
- with bells whistles,
- more embellished,
- most ornamented,
- over-worked,
- manyfaceted,
- with bells and whistles,
- more ornamented,
- with options,
- re fined,
- many faceted,
- with the options,
- most many-faceted,
- more elaborate,
- more many faceted,
- with extras,
- most many faceted,
- de tailed,
- ex-act,
- more garnished,
- more decorated,
- over worked,
- more luxurious,
- most embellished,
- embellished,
- most decorated,
- with the extras,
- de-tailed,
- ex tensive,
- more manyfaceted,
- ex act,
- with all extras,
- with all options,
- most garnished,
- over done.
- most inked,
- on the payroll,
- operating,
- in job,
- most laboring,
- more inked,
- more laboring,
- on payroll,
- on job.
- already taken,
- having many irons in the fire,
- in a meeting,
- in the field,
- on assignment,
- persevering,
- buried,
- Slaving,
- having fish to fry,
- having enough on one's plate,
- up to one's ears,
- in conference,
- in the laboratory,
- Snowed,
- swamped,
- having a full plate,
- in someone else's possession,
- on duty,
- with a customer,
- overloaded.
- more into,
- more consumed,
- in to,
- heavily in to,
- most enthralled,
- in tent,
- most captivated,
- sub-merged,
- more captivated,
- really in to,
- most riveted,
- most consumed,
- most submerged,
- most gripped,
- caught in,
- more in to,
- more submerged,
- more gripped,
- most in to,
- up here in,
- more monopolized,
- taken with,
- more enthralled,
- wrapped up,
- more riveted,
- most monopolized,
- most into,
- sub merged,
- more bugged,
- most bugged.
- more gumptious,
- coming strong,
- more take over,
- self-starting,
- up and coming,
- most take over,
- more lusting,
- more advancing,
- most gogo,
- most craving,
- more itching,
- more selfstarting,
- most itching,
- most lusting,
- up-and-coming,
- take-over,
- goahead,
- most gumptious,
- selfstarting,
- most yearning,
- GOGO,
- most go-go,
- most go go,
- most take-over,
- more self-starting,
- most takeover,
- more go go,
- more go-go,
- more takeover,
- more craving,
- go go,
- hard ball,
- most advancing,
- most self starting,
- more take-over,
- most selfstarting,
- more self starting,
- self starting,
- more gogo,
- more yearning,
- most self-starting.
- eat sleep breathe,
- most bound-up,
- boundup,
- more bound-up,
- most bound up,
- bound-up,
- bound up,
- taken up,
- more bound up,
- eat sleep and breathe,
- pre-occupied,
- most boundup,
- pre occupied,
- more boundup,
- more mesmerized,
- most mesmerized.
- more swarming,
- over crowded,
- more mobbed,
- most deluged,
- most swarming,
- more crammed,
- de luged,
- de-luged,
- most crammed,
- more deluged,
- more flooded,
- over flowing,
- over-flowing,
- most flooded,
- most mobbed,
- over-crowded.
- more interrupting,
- most intruding,
- most snooping,
- more tampering,
- impeding,
- inter-posing,
- more obstructive,
- more busybody,
- more encumbering,
- more impeding,
- inter meddling,
- more chiseling,
- more intruding,
- more interposing,
- most meddling,
- Interrupting,
- most tampering,
- more hindering,
- most hindering,
- more snooping,
- most kibitzing,
- most interposing,
- most obstructive,
- more meddling,
- more kibitzing,
- most chiseling,
- most encumbering,
- most impeding,
- inter posing,
- more intermeddling,
- inter-meddling,
- most intermeddling,
- most interrupting,
- most busybody.
- snoopy,
- forward,
- curious,
- inquisitive,
- troublesome,
- prying,
- pushy,
- nebby,
- butting in.
- pre sumptuous,
- more prognathous,
- more protuberant,
- most protuberant,
- most protruding,
- more protruding,
- most prognathous.
- glossy,
- over-elaborate,
- more jeweled,
- more bedecked,
- glitziest,
- Flaunting,
- most bedecked,
- more high wrought,
- most high wrought,
- be decked,
- more high-wrought,
- over elaborate,
- most highwrought,
- highwrought,
- be-decked,
- high wrought,
- glitzier,
- more overelaborate,
- more embroidered,
- most embroidered,
- most jeweled,
- most high-wrought,
- most overelaborate,
- re-splendent,
- more highwrought.
- more entranced,
- most enraptured,
- most entranced,
- more enraptured,
- over-whelmed,
- de lighted,
- be witched,
- in-attentive,
- most daydreaming,
- most beguiled,
- trans ported,
- more daydreaming,
- over whelmed,
- more beguiled,
- de-lighted,
- more ravished,
- most ravished,
- un-conscious,
- un conscious,
- be-witched.
- most unrestful,
- dis-orderly,
- in securer,
- un steady,
- in securest,
- un-quiet,
- ex plosive,
- in secure,
- un quiet,
- mutable,
- un-stable,
- un quieter,
- most changeful,
- un peaceful,
- un-quieter,
- un stable,
- more unnerved,
- un-peaceful,
- in-securer,
- un steadiest,
- un predictable,
- un-easier,
- most unnerved,
- ex-plosive,
- un easier,
- pre carious,
- most unpeaceful,
- un-stablest,
- un nerved,
- un-steadiest,
- un-stabler,
- pre-carious,
- un-nerved,
- in-secure,
- most rattled,
- un steadier,
- un-settled,
- un-quietest,
- in-securest,
- un stablest,
- un restful,
- more unrestful,
- in-constant,
- more changeful,
- dis orderly,
- un easy,
- un-steadier,
- un easiest,
- un stabler,
- un-balanced,
- un-restful,
- most shifting,
- more rattled,
- unnerved,
- un-easiest,
- un settled,
- un quietest,
- un-predictable,
- more unpeaceful.
n.
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- heavy.
- intrusive,
- overbusy,
- interfering,
- labouring,
- officious,
- engaged,
- busybodied,
- drudging,
- laboring,
- fancy,
- in use,
- tied up,
- up to,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- toiling.
- duty.
v.
•engage (verb)- hadst a shot at,
- gives try,
- goes for broke,
- going out for,
- giving a try,
- hadst go at,
- Preengaging,
- under taken,
- has a go at,
- hadst a go at,
- Preengaged,
- enter in to,
- has shot at,
- had a fling at,
- gave whirl,
- be-witches,
- gave a whirl,
- hadst a fling at,
- have go at,
- give whirl,
- hast shot at,
- has go at,
- having a go at,
- be-witching,
- had a go at,
- had go at,
- gave try,
- had shot at,
- be witch,
- having a shot at,
- going in for,
- pre-engaged,
- hath fling at,
- haddest a shot at,
- haddest shot at,
- hath a shot at,
- giving try,
- gives a whirl,
- pre-occupies,
- pre-occupy,
- keeping busy,
- hadst fling at,
- hath a fling at,
- gave a try,
- gives a try,
- setting about,
- hast a fling at,
- haddest a fling at,
- takes part,
- had fling at,
- went for broke,
- having fling at,
- gives whirl,
- under taking,
- has a shot at,
- pre occupying,
- keeps busy,
- pre-engages,
- haddest go at,
- had a shot at,
- pre engaging,
- kept busy,
- goes out for,
- have fling at,
- pre-engage,
- entering into,
- trying on for size,
- tried on for size,
- under-takes,
- hast go at,
- tries on for size,
- hath go at,
- went out for,
- pre-occupying,
- having shot at,
- embarking on,
- tried for size,
- hast fling at,
- has a fling at,
- having a fling at,
- have shot at,
- give try,
- under takes,
- hath shot at,
- haddest a go at,
- preengages,
- under-taking,
- giving a whirl,
- under take,
- pre occupies,
- pre-engaging,
- pre occupy,
- goes in for,
- sets about,
- be witching,
- be witches,
- trying for size,
- went in for,
- pre engage,
- pre engages,
- under took,
- hast a go at,
- hadst shot at,
- under-taken,
- tries for size,
- be-witch,
- hath a go at,
- pre engaged,
- has fling at,
- hast a shot at,
- haddest fling at,
- having go at,
- giving whirl.
- are hung,
- art hung,
- sews up,
- becomes lost,
- becoming lost,
- was hung,
- being hung,
- ups on,
- wast hung,
- became lost,
- were hung,
- upped on,
- am hung,
- upping on,
- sewing up,
- is hung,
- wert hung.
- held attention,
- was concerned with,
- are active with,
- art active with,
- is concerned with,
- are concerned with,
- art concerned with,
- holds attention,
- wast concerned with,
- is active with,
- being concerned with,
- wert concerned with,
- am active with,
- wast active with,
- were active with,
- wert active with,
- were concerned with,
- being active with,
- was active with,
- am concerned with,
- holding attention.
Other synonyms:
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•
- up to the ears,
- speed limit,
- congested,
- heaped,
- busy signal,
- packed,
- floral,
- phone back,
- jewelled,
- bulging,
- rushed,
- traffic jam,
- studded,
- embossed,
- ring round,
- Emblazoned,
- jam-packed,
- plumed,
- work on,
- bedecked,
- overcrowded,
- teeming,
- sequined,
- fringed,
- telephonist,
- chock-full,
- Heaping,
- personalized,
- bumper-to-bumper,
- inlaid,
- congestion charge,
- cluttered,
- snarl up,
- operational,
- chock-a-block,
- traffic calming,
- phone through,
- redial,
- ornamental,
- load down,
- bejeweled,
- tooled,
- phone round,
- decorative,
- florid,
- frilly,
- replete,
- brimful,
- rococo,
- bottleneck,
- busily,
- put-upon,
- telephony,
- gridlock,
- Crammed.
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- inflated,
- jam,
- saturation,
- interested,
- gilt-edged,
- congestion,
- beaded,
- riddled,
- saturation point,
- intricate,
- traveled,
- hold up,
- illuminated,
- heaving,
- That,
- subtle,
- phone-in,
- awash,
- wiretap,
- rich,
- bursting,
- pneumatic.
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- lousy,
- snarl,
- chintzy,
- telephone,
- ticket,
- traffic,
- thickly,
- phone,
- call back,
- caller,
- saturated,
- delicately,
- fragile,
- dial.
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- call-in,
- hang up,
- squeeze,
- disconnect.
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•
- squash.
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•
- get through.
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•
- rush.
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•
- high.
-
•
- put down.
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•
- transfer.
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•
- ring.
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•
- put on.
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- get.
- current,
- on foot,
- preoccupied,
- hasten,
- affected,
- fraught,
- elegant,
- peg away,
- play at,
- snooper,
- reside,
- gossip,
- blab,
- moresque,
- painstaking,
- finical,
- divert,
- busybody,
- battle of life,
- paul pry,
- rustler,
- extravagant,
- bloke,
- consequential,
- betrothed,
- grandiose,
- brightly,
- assumption,
- absorbed,
- in force,
- tie,
- enthusiastically,
- telltale,
- grab,
- noteworthy,
- happening,
- move,
- housewife,
- go ahead,
- Intermeddler,
- seizure,
- functional,
- soak,
- hummer,
- Intriguer,
- readily,
- grandiloquent,
- briskly,
- bombastic,
- significant,
- workable,
- overdone,
- crabbed,
- prompt,
- detailed,
- slow,
- raise up,
- nose,
- worry,
- hifalutin,
- cross,
- affect,
- taken,
- important,
- scandalmonger,
- meddler,
- push,
- bustle,
- animatedly,
- be active,
- complex,
- accept,
- enthrall,
- tax,
- enthusiastic,
- spend,
- live,
- operative,
- quickly,
- passionately,
- granny,
- early,
- mistime,
- come amiss,
- fine,
- dabble in,
- conscientious,
- convulsion,
- activate,
- wave,
- monopolize,
- mind the store,
- memorable,
- exciting,
- garish,
- luxurious,
- particular,
- zealously,
- encroach,
- tie up,
- blabber,
- intermeshed,
- call-back,
- make a push,
- in haste,
- devotee,
- picturesque,
- roller,
- Pickthank,
- byzantine,
- on hand,
- chichi,
- hurried,
- toil,
- swarming,
- afoot,
- hold attention,
- alive,
- over-active,
- absorb,
- transitive,
- impertinent,
- chaotic,
- professional,
- stir,
- prepossess,
- pass the time,
- flowery,
- inhabit,
- precipitately,
- busy bee,
- be occupied,
- grip,
- tattler,
- ill-tempered,
- sharply,
- enthusiast,
- seize,
- laboured,
- in action,
- pretty-pretty,
- agitation,
- pompous,
- push forward,
- decorated,
- gossiper,
- abubble,
- interest,
- spry,
- intrude,
- momentous,
- luxuriant,
- keenly,
- Overlabored,
- cylinder,
- earnestly,
- oppress,
- overwrought,
- running,
- pragmatical,
- ardently,
- dabble,
- physical,
- arabesque,
- attachment,
- attach,
- gingerbread,
- persist,
- riotous,
- wheel,
- talebearer,
- operable,
- High-wrought,
- busiest,
- babbler,
- arrest,
- affianced,
- drive,
- make haste,
- eagerly,
- zealot,
- swiftly,
- fascinate,
- agitated,
- presumptuous,
- plod,
- frenetic,
- Overtask,
- entertain,
- catch,
- eventful,
- businesslike,
- nosy,
- interesting,
- flatfoot,
- actively,
- taleteller,
- overwork,
- astir,
- labored,
- frenzied,
- roll,
- sweat,
- functioning,
- contemporary,
- fervently,
- ictus,
- flamboyant,
- Pottering,
- self-appointed,
- invade,
- excited,
- block,
- hardworking,
- instinct,
- going on,
- high-flown,
- nimble,
- amuse,
- hustler,
- grumpy,
- admit,
- receive,
- bemuse,
- pushing,
- curler,
- Quidnunc,
- thriving,
- nimbly,
- take,
- internment,
- dip into,
- harass,
- vigilant,
- strive,
- rapidly,
- Energetical,
- buzzing,
- laborious,
- dwell,
- highfalutin,
- notable,
- complicated,
- hurriedly,
- speedily,
- fulsome,
- detective,
- lavish,
- involve,
- work,
- Overworked,
- detention,
- attend to business,
- snoop,
- promptly,
- crabby,
- bespoken,
- pretentious,
- use up,
- blabberer,
- speed,
- on the run,
- Overelegant,
- fill,
- dabble at,
- wild,
- carpe diem,
- attack,
- anxious,
- snarl-up,
- burden,
- vehemently,
- have,
- mad,
- beguile,
- dick,
- rumormonger,
- expeditious,
- vigorous,
- tattletale,
- newsmonger,
- preoccupy,
- opportunity,
- bestir oneself,
- finicky,
- showy,
- overdrive,
- be busy,
- fidgety,
- going,
- frantic,
- devote,
- expeditiously,
- ostentatious,
- rouse oneself,
- in hand,
- official,
- make a fuss,
- convoluted,
- ornamented,
- tabby,
- signal,
- hyperactive,
- overtax,
- struggle,
- toll,
- workaday,
- BUSIER,
- cock,
- zealous,
- investigator,
- fiercely,
- lay about one,
- gaudy,
- distract,
- appropriation,
- feverish,
- gumshoe,
- labor,
- dabble with,
- indefatigable,
- fag,
- lodge in,
- practical,
- busyness,
- chatterer,
- make progress,
- hastily,
- busy oneself,
- possess,
- confiscation,
- apprehension,
- mobile,
- agile,
- Betake,
- Ossianic,
- baroque,
- grouchy,
- task,
- acting,
- apply.
Paraphrases for Busy:
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Independent
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Adjective
heavy, responsible, intense, overwhelmed, overloaded, lively, occupied, prosperous, Occupying, loaded.
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Proper noun, singular
occupied.
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Noun, singular or mass
occupied.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
made.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
bustling, congested, overcrowded, hectic, overburdened, intensive.
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Verb, past tense
occupied.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Busy:
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adj.
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all
idle.
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engaged, at work
unoccupied, inactive, lazy, unengaged, unemployed, unbusy, quiet.
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Other antonyms:
reserved, retiring, unintrusive, restrained, not intrusive, lifeless, heavy, taciturn, uninvolved, reticent, withdrawn, plain, reclusive, passive, nonoperating, unobtrusive, silent, asleep, hands-off, subdued, inhibited, sluggish.
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all
Homophones for Busy:
- Bizzy.
Hypernym for Busy:
v.
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social
potter, play around, dabble, smatter, putter.
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social
Hyponym for Busy:
v.
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social
work.
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social