Busying

Synonyms for "busying" (144 found)

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Closest matches (29)

active at work engaged fussy tied up absorb arabesque assiduous at it attend to business baroque brisk burden bursty bustling busybody chichi complex complicated detailed

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devote diligent divert drive

Adjective(4 words)

swamped abuzz animate dynamic

Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (43)

earnest elaborate elegant employ employed energetic engage engross engrossed enterprising eventful fag fancy fine flamboyant florid flowery forward frilly full of business

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hard at it hard at work hectic high-wrought humming hustling immerse impertinent in harness in use industrious inquisitive interfering intricate intrusive

Adjective(3 words)

effervescent hearty heavy

Adjective(4 words)

engaged fussy in use interfering

Preposition(1 words)

in the middle of

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Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Source: tatoeba (6821146)

What are you busying yourself with now?

Source: tatoeba (13261123)

All of you have some business or other to do in the world. Are not your thoughts, and talkings, and busyings, and anxieties, and cares, altogether about the business you have to do?

Source: wiktionary

And as other dreams come from the multitude of business, so from such like busyings of the mind, we shall pray but dreamingly and distemperedly.

Source: wiktionary

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