521 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹˈiːˈɒkjʊpˌa͡ɪd], [ pɹˈiːˈɒkjʊpˌa‍ɪd], [ p_ɹ_ˈiː__ˈɒ_k_j_ʊ_p_ˌaɪ_d]

Similar words for pre-occupied:

• absent-minded (adjective)
• absentminded (adjective)
• absorbed (adjective)
• attentive (adjective)
• bemused (adjective)
• deep (adjective)
• dreamy (adjective)
• engaged (adjective)
• faraway (adjective)
• forgetful (adjective)
• immersed (adjective)
• inattentive (adjective)
• intent (adjective)
• lost (adjective)
• oblivious (adjective)
• obsessed (adjective)
• pensive (adjective)
• preoccupied (adjective)
• rapt (adjective)
• ruminative (adjective)
• thoughtful (adjective)
• absorb (verb)
• consume (verb)
• engage (verb)
• engross (verb)
• enthrall (verb)
• exercise (verb)
• forestall (verb)
• involve (verb)
• occupy (verb)
• preoccupy (verb)

Synonyms for Pre-occupied:

• adj.

  • absent-minded (adjective)
  • goofing off,
  • scatterbrained,
  • inattentive,
  • unthinking,
  • unheeding,
  • unconscious,
  • preoccupied,
  • dreaming,
  • unaware of events,
  • surroundings,
  • unobservant,
  • unmindful,
  • remote,
  • head in the clouds,
  • space cadet,
  • withdrawn,
  • dreamy,
  • careless,
  • spacey,
  • pipe dreaming,
  • out to lunch.
  • absentminded (adjective)
  • unseeing.
  • absorbed (adjective)
  • consumed,
  • up to here,
  • really into,
  • involved,
  • wrapped up,
  • held,
  • head over heels,
  • captivated,
  • fixed,
  • deep in thought,
  • gone.
  • attentive (adjective)
  • conscientious,
  • hanging on every word,
  • glued,
  • watchful,
  • mindful,
  • regardful,
  • interested,
  • awake,
  • aware,
  • on one's toes,
  • observant,
  • vigilant,
  • Enrapt,
  • alert,
  • studious,
  • heedful,
  • hooked,
  • listening,
  • on the job,
  • on the ball,
  • enthralled,
  • all ears,
  • on the qui vive,
  • on the lookout.
  • bemused (adjective)
  • a million miles away.
  • deep (adjective)
  • musing,
  • wrapped,
  • focused,
  • Into,
  • set,
  • enfolded,
  • concentrated,
  • centered.
  • dreamy (adjective)
  • chimerical,
  • introvertive,
  • excellent,
  • whimsical,
  • utopian,
  • otherworldly,
  • lulling,
  • unsubstantial,
  • phantasmagoric,
  • out of this world,
  • phantasmagorical,
  • soothing,
  • gentle,
  • misty,
  • visionary,
  • astral,
  • introspective,
  • vague,
  • shadowy,
  • mythical,
  • unreal,
  • fanciful,
  • marvelous,
  • impractical,
  • calming,
  • pensive,
  • quixotic,
  • idealistic,
  • intangible,
  • fantastic,
  • relaxing,
  • speculative,
  • nightmarish,
  • immaterial,
  • imaginary.
  • engaged (adjective)
  • employed,
  • tied up,
  • performing,
  • signed,
  • in use,
  • pursuing,
  • in place,
  • dealing in,
  • Doing,
  • connected with,
  • unavailable,
  • working,
  • practicing,
  • at work,
  • committed,
  • occupied.
  • faraway (adjective)
  • far,
  • distant,
  • far-removed,
  • far-off,
  • outlying,
  • quite a ways,
  • beyond the horizon,
  • well away,
  • far-flung.
  • forgetful (adjective)
  • looking out window,
  • sloppy,
  • nirvanic,
  • unwitting,
  • like an absent-minded professor,
  • slack,
  • not on the job,
  • lax,
  • remiss,
  • negligent,
  • neglectful,
  • out of it,
  • amnesic,
  • amnemonic,
  • asleep on the job.
  • immersed (adjective)
  • busy,
  • turned on,
  • buried,
  • mesmerized,
  • eat sleep and breathe,
  • bound-up.
  • inattentive (adjective)
  • apathetic,
  • indifferent,
  • undiscerning,
  • listless,
  • thoughtless,
  • unwatchful,
  • distraught,
  • bored,
  • absentminded,
  • inadvertent,
  • blind,
  • Inobservant,
  • unperceiving,
  • Unobserving,
  • unnoticing,
  • diverted,
  • regardless,
  • off-guard.
  • intent (adjective)
  • bound,
  • attending,
  • settled,
  • industrious,
  • firm,
  • Concentrating,
  • watching,
  • steady,
  • bent,
  • attentive,
  • enthusiastic,
  • piercing,
  • decided,
  • intense,
  • steadfast,
  • hell-bent,
  • earnest,
  • decisive,
  • resolved,
  • Riveted,
  • Minding,
  • eager.
  • lost (adjective)
  • ignorant,
  • wasted,
  • feeble,
  • taken in,
  • perplexed,
  • going in circles,
  • entranced,
  • bewildered.
  • oblivious (adjective)
  • incognizant,
  • uninformed,
  • Forgetting,
  • uninstructed,
  • Disregardful,
  • unrecognizing,
  • unacquainted,
  • overlooking,
  • deaf,
  • unfamiliar,
  • insensible,
  • zonked,
  • Inconversant,
  • strung out,
  • not all there,
  • unconcerned,
  • Blundering,
  • unknowing.
  • obsessed (adjective)
  • dogged,
  • tormented,
  • harassed,
  • up to here in,
  • bewitched,
  • wound up with,
  • Fiendish,
  • bedeviled,
  • immersed in,
  • Prepossessed,
  • beset,
  • dominated,
  • wrapped up in,
  • infatuated,
  • fixated,
  • troubled,
  • controlled,
  • plagued,
  • seized,
  • possessed,
  • overpowered,
  • haunted,
  • hung up on,
  • gripped,
  • taken over.
  • pensive (adjective)
  • grave,
  • contemplative,
  • thoughtful,
  • cogitative,
  • serious,
  • Ruminating,
  • thinking,
  • ruminative,
  • sober,
  • wistful,
  • reflective,
  • pondering,
  • reflecting.
  • preoccupied (adjective)
  • bemused,
  • spread out,
  • engaged,
  • asleep,
  • forgetful,
  • airheaded,
  • wrapped-up,
  • bugged,
  • rapt,
  • unaware,
  • lost,
  • intent,
  • absent,
  • moony,
  • obsessed,
  • removed,
  • Absent-minded,
  • Mooning,
  • absorbed,
  • faraway,
  • distracted,
  • deep,
  • distrait,
  • spellbound,
  • fascinated,
  • daydreaming,
  • hung up,
  • inconscient,
  • Immersed,
  • taken up,
  • woolgathering,
  • oblivious,
  • lost in thought,
  • heedless,
  • abstracted,
  • engrossed,
  • have on the brain.
  • rapt (adjective)
  • charmed,
  • rapturous,
  • enraptured,
  • overwhelmed,
  • ecstatic,
  • hypnotized,
  • delighted,
  • caught up in,
  • Transported,
  • carried away,
  • taken,
  • Ravished,
  • happy,
  • beguiled,
  • blissful,
  • enamored.
  • ruminative (adjective)
  • in a brown study,
  • excogitative.
  • thoughtful (adjective)
  • cerebral,
  • intellectual,
  • deliberative,
  • reasonable,
  • melancholy,
  • meditative,
  • discerning,
  • brainy,
  • Museful,
  • logical,
  • rational,
  • philosophic,
  • farsighted,
  • subjective,
  • keen,
  • reasoning,
  • calculating,
  • analytical,
  • levelheaded,
  • wise,
  • retrospective.

• v.

  • absorb (verb)
  • concern,
  • preoccupy,
  • rivet,
  • involve,
  • obsess,
  • hold,
  • fill,
  • captivate,
  • engage,
  • employ,
  • fascinate.
  • consume (verb)
  • deplete,
  • fritter away,
  • devour,
  • avail oneself of,
  • profit by,
  • put away,
  • frivol away,
  • run out of,
  • squander,
  • run through,
  • throw away,
  • wash up,
  • drain,
  • go through,
  • have recourse to,
  • absorb,
  • finish up,
  • put to use,
  • vanish,
  • lavish,
  • wear out,
  • dissipate,
  • go,
  • expend,
  • apply,
  • spend,
  • trifle,
  • drivel,
  • finish,
  • dominate,
  • utilize,
  • waste,
  • lessen,
  • exhaust,
  • eat up.
  • engage (verb)
  • allure,
  • tie up,
  • set about,
  • go for broke,
  • soak,
  • catch,
  • have a shot at,
  • join,
  • practice,
  • interest,
  • partake,
  • tackle,
  • give a try,
  • Preengage,
  • give a whirl,
  • arrest,
  • keep busy,
  • participate,
  • try on for size,
  • enchant,
  • undertake,
  • take part,
  • bewitch,
  • go in for,
  • grip,
  • pitch in,
  • have a go at,
  • imbue,
  • enthrall,
  • go out for,
  • embark on,
  • charm,
  • have a fling at,
  • draw,
  • enamor,
  • enter into.
  • engross (verb)
  • corner,
  • be hung,
  • become lost,
  • take up,
  • sew up,
  • up on,
  • occupy,
  • attract,
  • enrapture,
  • engulf,
  • hog.
  • enthrall (verb)
  • entrance,
  • enslave,
  • subject,
  • beguile,
  • mesmerize,
  • hold spellbound,
  • subdue,
  • intrigue,
  • spellbind,
  • subjugate,
  • hypnotize,
  • grab,
  • hook.
  • exercise (verb)
  • agitate,
  • annoy,
  • abrade,
  • gall,
  • burden,
  • chafe,
  • bother,
  • trouble,
  • vex,
  • perturb,
  • afflict,
  • try,
  • pain,
  • distress,
  • provoke,
  • disturb,
  • irk.
  • forestall (verb)
  • deter,
  • preclude,
  • delay,
  • prevent,
  • hinder,
  • thwart,
  • avert,
  • anticipate.
  • involve (verb)
  • complicate,
  • associate,
  • touch,
  • inculpate,
  • entangle,
  • presuppose,
  • wrap up in,
  • argue,
  • comprise,
  • point to,
  • relate,
  • link,
  • imply,
  • number,
  • affect,
  • commit,
  • denote,
  • rope in,
  • entail,
  • tangle,
  • cover,
  • embroil,
  • compromise,
  • embrace,
  • require,
  • necessitate,
  • implicate,
  • snarl up,
  • mix up,
  • suggest,
  • connect,
  • prove,
  • incriminate,
  • mean,
  • contain,
  • enmesh,
  • mire,
  • bind.
  • occupy (verb)
  • be concerned with,
  • hold attention,
  • be active with,
  • divert,
  • entertain,
  • attend,
  • amuse.
  • preoccupy (verb)
  • comprehend,
  • get into,
  • monopolize,
  • grasp,
  • learn,
  • soak up,
  • engross,
  • digest,
  • assimilate,
  • get,
  • consume,
  • understand,
  • sense,
  • latch onto,
  • take in,
  • follow,
  • incorporate,
  • immerse.