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Disregard vs Busy - What's the difference?

disregard | busy |

As nouns the difference between disregard and busy

is that disregard is the act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard while busy is a police officer.

As verbs the difference between disregard and busy

is that disregard is to ignore; misregard while busy is to make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.

As an adjective busy is

crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

disregard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
  • The government's disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ignore; misregard.
  • Synonyms

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    busy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
  • a busy street
  • * Shakespeare
  • To-morrow is a busy day.
  • Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
  • 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.
  • Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
  • Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
  • Officious; meddling.
  • * 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
  • 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.

    Verb

  • 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.
  • Noun

    (busies)
  • A police officer.