busy
busy [busier] adj
OE.
- Diligent; busy; industrious; occupied; hard-working; not lazy; diligently employed; [quoted from children's hymn by Isaac Watts 'Against Idleness and Mischief'.]
- Crumbling; breaking down; [fig.] chemically active; subject to natural processes of decay.
- Scratching; scribbling; marking; [fig.] quickly writing; constantly inscribing; moving by power of an author's hand.
- Active; astir; dynamic; constantly moving; [fig.] fostering; raising; nurturing; cultivating; bringing up; stimulating growth.
- Burning; glowing; shining; flickering; moving deftly in the process of combustion.
- Officious; intrusive; obtrusive; interfering; invasive; encroaching; impinging; trespassing; [fig.] fast-growing; spreading out aggressively.
- Careful; attentive; engaged; deeply engrossed; occupied without ceasing; employed with constant attention; [fig.] distracted; preoccupied; not able to be interrupted.