Hectic vs Busy - What's the difference?
hectic | busy |
Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
(obsolete) A hectic fever.
(obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
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.
As adjectives the difference between hectic and busy
is that hectic is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin while busy is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.As nouns the difference between hectic and busy
is that hectic is a hectic fever while busy is {{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer.As a verb busy is
to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.hectic
English
Alternative forms
* hectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
- The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Synonyms
* feverishDerived terms
* hecticallyNoun
(en noun)- For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].
External links
* *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.