busy
/icons/point.icon BUSY, INDUSTRIOUS, DILIGENT, ASSIDUOUS, SEDULOUS mean actively engaged or occupied.
BUSY chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure.
e.g. too busy to spend time with the children
INDUSTRIOUS implies characteristic or habitual devotion to work.
e.g. industrious employees
DILIGENT suggests earnest application to some specific object or pursuit.
e.g. very diligent in her pursuit of a degree
ASSIDUOUS stresses careful and unremitting application.
e.g. assiduous practice
SEDULOUS implies painstaking and persevering application.
e.g. a sedulous investigation of the murder
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adjective (busier, busiest)
having a great deal to do:
〖be busy doing〗 …するのに忙しい (!be busy in doingは今は｟まれ｠ ) (occupied)(↔ free)
e.g. he had been too busy to enjoy himself
〖keep A busy〗 〈事が〉A〈人〉を忙しくさせている; 〖keep (oneself) ～〗 〈人が〉忙しくしている
e.g. there was enough work to keep two people busy.
occupied with or concentrating on a particular activity or object of attention:
〖通例名詞の前で〗せわしい, 忙しい〈時期･生活など〉(hectic)(↔ quiet)
e.g. the team members are busy raising money
〖be busy with A〗 〈人が〉A〈事〉に忙しい, Aで手が離せない, A〈人〉の対応に忙しい (!事にはwithの代わりにat, on, aboutが用いられることがある) ;
e.g. he was busy with preparations.
(of a place) full of activity.
«…で» 〈場所が〉にぎやかな, 混雑している; 〈道路などが〉交通量の多い, 交通の激しい «with»
excessively detailed or decorated; fussy:
｟けなして｠ 〈模様･柄が〉ごちゃごちゃした, うるさい.
e.g. they papered the bedroom with a busy pattern of satyrs and dryads.
chiefly North American (of a telephone line) engaged.
比較なし ｟主に米｠ ; 〖通例be ～〗 〈電話回線が〉話し中で, の(｟英｠ engaged)
verb (busies, busying, busied) with object (busy oneself)
keep occupied:
〖～ oneself〗 «…で/…して» 忙しく動き回る «with, at, about/(by, with) doing»
e.g. she busied herself with her new home.
DERIVATIVES
busyness | ˈbizēnəs | noun
ORIGIN
Old English bisgian (verb), bisig (noun); related to Dutch bezig, of unknown origin.