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.
  •active, on the go (adjective)
  • tiring,
  • fussy,
  • humming,
  • strenuous,
  • restless,
  • busy as a beaver,
  • popping.
  •all (adjective)
  • busy.
  •assiduous (adjective)
  • un flagging,
  • ex acting,
  • steady,
  • ex-acting,
  • un tiring,
  • more plugging,
  • most plugging,
  • un-tiring,
  • un-flagging.
  •contracted (adjective)
  • hired.
  •diligent (adjective)
  • more persisting,
  • steadfast,
  • persistent,
  • Operose,
  • most persisting,
  • grindest,
  • more diligent,
  • un-relenting,
  • un relenting.
  •earnest (adjective)
  • more perseverant,
  • vehement,
  • most fervid,
  • most perseverant,
  • de-voted,
  • de voted.
  •elaborate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •employed (adjective)
  • most inked,
  • on the payroll,
  • operating,
  • in job,
  • most laboring,
  • more inked,
  • more laboring,
  • on payroll,
  • on job.
  •engaged, at work (adjective)
  • 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.
  •engrossed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •enterprising (adjective)
  • 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.
  •florid (adjective)
  • over blown,
  • figurative,
  • high flown,
  • most euphuistic,
  • more euphuistic,
  • over-blown,
  • highflown.
  •hired (adjective)
  • signed up.
  •humming (adjective)
  • most hopping,
  • more hopping.
  •immersed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •industrious (adjective)
  • psyched on,
  • psyched upon,
  • on go,
  • ball fire.
  •jammed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •meddlesome (adjective)
  • 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.
  •nosy, impertinent (adjective)
  • snoopy,
  • forward,
  • curious,
  • inquisitive,
  • troublesome,
  • prying,
  • pushy,
  • nebby,
  • butting in.
  •obtrusive (adjective)
  • pre sumptuous,
  • more prognathous,
  • more protuberant,
  • most protuberant,
  • most protruding,
  • more protruding,
  • most prognathous.
  •occupied (adjective)
  • peopled,
  • lived-in,
  • lived in.
  •officious (adjective)
  • more overzealous,
  • overzealous,
  • opinionated,
  • over zealous,
  • most overzealous.
  •on duty (adjective)
  • clocked punched in.
  •ornate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •rapt (adjective)
  • 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.
  •rousing (adjective)
  • more buzzing,
  • rousing,
  • most astir,
  • most buzzing,
  • more astir,
  • full pep.
  •studious (adjective)
  • well-informed.
  •traveled (adjective)
  • well-used,
  • widely known.
  •unsettled (adjective)
  • 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.
  •working (adjective)
  • on track,
  • in process.

• n.

  •
  • immersed in something,
  • rushed/run off your feet,
  • hard at it,
  • knee-deep.
  •
  • unavailable,
  • available,
  • cramped,
  • full,
  • employed,
  • Rented,
  • dense.
  •
  • filter,
  • back up.
  •
  • delicate,
  • action.
  •
  • simple,
  • cut off,
  • call up,
  • answer.
  •
  • heavy.
  •busy (noun)
  • intrusive,
  • overbusy,
  • interfering,
  • labouring,
  • officious,
  • engaged,
  • busybodied,
  • drudging,
  • laboring,
  • fancy,
  • in use,
  • tied up,
  • up to,
  • meddlesome,
  • meddling,
  • toiling.
  •on duty (noun)
  • 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.
  •engross (verb)
  • 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.
  •occupy (verb)
  • 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:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • 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.
  •
  • lousy,
  • snarl,
  • chintzy,
  • telephone,
  • ticket,
  • traffic,
  • thickly,
  • phone,
  • call back,
  • caller,
  • saturated,
  • delicately,
  • fragile,
  • dial.
  •
  • there,
  • crowded,
  • employ,
  • speak,
  • put through,
  • This,
  • out.
  •
  • call-in,
  • hang up,
  • squeeze,
  • disconnect.
  •
  • squash.
  •
  • get through.
  •
  • rush.
  •
  • through,
  • thick.
  •
  • high.
  •
  • put down.
  •
  • transfer.
  •
  • ring.
  •
  • put on.
  •
  • hold,
  • call.
  •
  • get.
  •diligent
  • never-tiring.
  •engaged
  • involved.
  •occupy
  • be concerned with,
  • be active with.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    heavy, responsible, intense, overwhelmed, overloaded, lively, occupied, prosperous, Occupying, loaded.
  • Proper noun, singular
    occupied.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    occupied.
  • Verb, past tense
    handled, Performed, Managed, Served, filled, Chaired, planted, Dealt, Acted.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    made.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    bustling, congested, overcrowded, hectic, overburdened, intensive.
  • Verb, past tense
    occupied.

Antonyms for Busy:

• adj.

  • all
    idle.
  • engaged, at work
    unoccupied, inactive, lazy, unengaged, unemployed, unbusy, quiet.
  • 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.

Homophones for Busy:

• Bizzy.

Hypernym for Busy:

• v.

  • social
    potter, play around, dabble, smatter, putter.

Hyponym for Busy:

• v.

  • social
    work.