SkyfireDict

busy   (TTS Sound)

The verb busy has 1 sense

• busy, occupy -- (keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection")

The adj busy has 5 senses

• busy -- (actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch")


• busy, fussy -- (overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design")


• interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied -- (intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business")


• busy -- (crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport")


• busy, engaged, in use -- ((of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal")