Busy vs Occupied - What's the difference?
busy | occupied |
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
Reserved, engaged.
Busy, unavailable.
Subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence.
travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945
(occupy)
As adjectives the difference between busy and occupied
is that busy is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on while occupied is reserved, engaged.As verbs the difference between busy and occupied
is that busy is to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied while occupied is past tense of occupy.As a noun busy
is {{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer.busy
English
Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.
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* 1000 English basic wordsoccupied
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The stall on the left is occupied .
- she is occupied at the moment