English-Thai Dictionary

busy

ADJ ขยัน  ไม่อยู่ เฉย  kha-yan

 

busy

ADJ ยุ่ง วุ่นวาย  ยุ่ง  อลเวง  อลหม่าน  สับสน  occupied inactive yung-wun-wai

 

busy with

PHRV วุ่นอยู่กับ  ง่วนอยู่กับ  wun-yu-kab

 

busybody

N คน สอดรู้สอดเห็น เรื่อง คนอื่น  kon-sod-ru-sod-hen-rueang-kon-uen

 

busyness

N การ มี งาน ยุ่ง  karn-mi-ngarn-yoong

 

busywork

N งา นที่ ทำให้ ยุ่ง และไม่ มีประโยชน์  ngan-ti-tham-hai-yung-lae-mai-mee-pra-yod

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUSY

a.biz'zy. 1. Employed with constant attention; engaged about something that renders interruption inconvenient; as, a man is busy in posting his books.
My mistress is busy and cannot come.
2. Actively employed; occupied without cessation; constantly in motion; as a busy bee.
3. Active in that which does not concern the person; meddling with or prying into the affairs of others; officious; importunate; hence, troublesome; vexatious.
4. Much occupied with employment; as a busy day.

 

BUSY

v.t.biz'zy. To employ with constant attention; to keep engaged; to make or keep busy; as, to busy one's self with books. To be busied with genue and species.

 

BUSY-BODY

n.biz'zy-body. [busy and body. ] A meddling person; one who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BUSY

Bus "y, a. Etym: [OE. busi, bisi, AS. bysig; akin to D. bezig, LG. besig; cf. Skr. bh to be active, busy. ]

 

1. Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being ); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant. Sir, my mistress sends you word THat she is busy, and she can not come. Shak.

 

2. Constantly at work; diligent; active. Busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Religious motives... are so busy in the heart. Addison.

 

3. Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street. To-morrow is a busy day. Shak.

 

4. Officious; meddling; foolish active. On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Shak.

 

5. Careful; anxious. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

Syn. -- Diligent; industrious; assiduous; active; occupied; engaged.

 

BUSY

Bus "y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Busied; p. pr. & vb. n. Busying.] Etym: [AS. bysgian.]

 

Defn: To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.

 

BUSYBODY

Bus "y *bod `y, n.; pl. Busybodies.

 

Defn: One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person. And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 Tim. v. 13.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

busy

bus y |ˈbizē ˈbɪzi | ▶adjective ( busier, busiest ) having a great deal to do: he had been too busy to enjoy himself | there was enough work to keep two people busy. • occupied with or concentrating on a particular activity or object of attention: the team members are busy raising money | he was busy with preparations. • (of a place ) full of activity. • excessively detailed or decorated; fussy: they papered the bedroom with a busy pattern of satyrs and dryads. • (of a telephone line ) engaged. ▶verb ( busies, busying, busied ) [ with obj. ] (busy oneself ) keep occupied: she busied herself with her new home. DERIVATIVES bus y ness noun ORIGIN Old English bisgian (verb ), bisig (noun ); related to Dutch bezig.

 

busy bee

bus y bee ▶noun informal an industrious person.

 

busybody

bus y bod y |ˈbizēˌbädē ˈbɪziˌbɑdi | ▶noun ( pl. busybodies ) a meddling or prying person.

 

busy Lizzie

busy Liz ¦zie |ˈlɪzi | ▶noun ( pl. busy Lizzies ) Brit. an East African plant with abundant red, pink, or white flowers. It is widely grown as a houseplant, and its many hybrids are grown as bedding plants. ●Impatiens walleriana, family Balsaminaceae.

 

busy signal

bus y sig nal ▶noun a sound indicating that a telephone line is engaged, typically a repeated single bleep.

 

busywork

bus y work |ˈbizēˌwərk ˈbɪziˌwərk | ▶noun work that keeps a person busy but has little value in itself.

 

Oxford Dictionary

busy

busy |ˈbɪzi | ▶adjective ( busier, busiest ) 1 having a great deal to do: he had been too busy to enjoy himself. • occupied with or concentrating on a particular activity or object of attention: the team members are busy raising money. • (of a time or place ) full of activity: the busy city streets | I've had a busy day. • chiefly N. Amer. (of a telephone line ) engaged. 2 excessively detailed or decorated: the lavish set designs are a little too busy. ▶verb ( busies, busying, busied ) (busy oneself ) keep oneself occupied: she busied herself with her new home. ▶noun (also bizzy ) ( pl. busies or bizzies ) Brit. informal a police officer. PHRASES get busy 1 begin work or tasks that need to be done: this meeting is dismissed —let's get busy, people. 2 informal have sexual intercourse. DERIVATIVES busyness |ˈbɪzɪnɪs |noun ORIGIN Old English bisgian (verb ), bisig (noun ); related to Dutch bezig, of unknown origin.

 

busy bee

busy bee ▶noun informal an industrious person.

 

busybody

busy |body |ˈbɪzɪbɒdi | ▶noun ( pl. busybodies ) a meddling or prying person.

 

busy Lizzie

busy Liz ¦zie |ˈlɪzi | ▶noun ( pl. busy Lizzies ) Brit. an East African plant with abundant red, pink, or white flowers. It is widely grown as a houseplant, and its many hybrids are grown as bedding plants. ●Impatiens walleriana, family Balsaminaceae.

 

busy signal

busy sig ¦nal ▶noun North American term for engaged tone.

 

busywork

busy |work |ˈbɪziwɜːk | ▶noun [ mass noun ] chiefly N. Amer. work that keeps a person busy but has little value in itself.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

busy

busy adjective 1 the campaign volunteers have been busy: occupied, engaged, involved, employed, working, hard at work; rushed off one's feet, hard-pressed, swamped, up to one's neck; on the job, absorbed, engrossed, immersed, preoccupied; informal (as ) busy as a bee, on the go, hard at it. ANTONYMS idle. 2 sorry, she's busy at the moment: unavailable, engaged, occupied; working, in a meeting, on duty; informal tied up. ANTONYMS free. 3 the busy streets of Toronto: hectic, active, lively; crowded, bustling, abuzz, swarming, teeming, full, thronged. 4 a busy design: ornate, overelaborate, overblown, overwrought, overdone, fussy, cluttered, overworked. ANTONYMS restrained, quiet. ▶verb he busied himself with paperwork: occupy, involve, engage, concern, absorb, engross, immerse, preoccupy; distract, divert. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD busy, assiduous, diligent, engaged, industrious, sedulous There are varying degrees of busyness. Busy implies actively and attentively involved in work or a pastime (too busy to come to the phone ). It can also be used to describe intensive activity of any kind (a busy intersection; a busy day ). Someone who is engaged is also busy, but in a more focused way (engaged in compiling a dictionary ). Diligent is used to describe earnest and constant effort, and it often connotes enjoyment of or dedication to what one is doing (diligent efforts to rescue injured animals ). To be industrious is to be more focused still, often with a definite goal in mind (an industrious employee working for a promotion ). Sedulous also applies to goal-oriented activity, but it suggests more close care and perseverance than industrious does (a sedulous investigation of the accident ). The award for concentrated effort goes to the person who is assiduous, which suggests painstaking preoccupation with a specific task (an assiduous student is the one most likely to win his or her teacher's favor ).These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

busybody

busybody noun I was labeled a snob because I didn't care to belong to her nest of busybodies: meddler, interferer, mischief-maker, troublemaker; gossip, scandalmonger; eavesdropper; informal kibitzer, buttinsky, snoop, snooper, nosy parker, yenta.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

busy

busy adjective 1 he's always busy with some useful job | the team members are busy raising money: occupied (in ), engaged in, involved in, employed in, working at, labouring at, toiling at, slaving at, hard at work (on ), wrapped up (in /with ); rushed off one's feet (with ), hard-pressed; at work (on ), on the job, absorbed in, engrossed in, immersed in, preoccupied with; active (in ), lively, industrious, bustling, energetic, tireless; informal busy as a bee, on the go, hard at it; Brit. informal on the hop; (be busy ) have one's hands full. ANTONYMS idle. 2 Mr Jenkins is busy at the moment: unavailable, otherwise engaged; engaged, occupied, in a meeting, working, at work, on duty, on active service, in harness; informal tied up; (be busy ) have a prior /previous engagement. ANTONYMS free. 3 I've had a busy day: strenuous, hectic, energetic, active, lively, exacting, tiring, full, eventful. ANTONYMS quiet. 4 the town centre was unusually busy: crowded, bustling, swarming, teeming, astir, buzzing, hectic, full, thronged, thronging, lively, vibrant; informal buzzy. 5 the frame should be fairly plain, to balance the rather busy design: excessively ornate, over-ornate, over-elaborate, over-embellished, over-decorated, overblown, overwrought, exaggerated, overdone, florid, fussy, cluttered, contrived, overworked, over-detailed, strained, laboured, baroque, rococo. ANTONYMS quiet, restrained. ▶verb a single clerk busied himself with paperwork: occupy, involve, engage, concern, employ, absorb, engross, immerse, preoccupy; interest, entertain, distract, divert, amuse, beguile. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD busy, occupied, engaged, active Each of these words has several meanings, but those applied to people have subtle distinctions. ■ Saying that someone is busy means that they have a great deal to do (if I'm busy, my husband does the cooking ) or are occupied with a specified activity (Bernard was busy with flying lessons ). Either way, they are likely to have no time for further calls on their attention (I'm too busy to write letters ). ■ Someone who is occupied has something to do which takes up a good deal of their time or attention. There is a suggestion that this activity is a welcome means of filling empty time, but not unduly onerous (the children were fully occupied with games and competitions ). In spite of this use of fully, neither occupied nor engaged is often qualified as to degree —someone is either occupied /engaged or they are not, whereas people are frequently described as very, extremely, really or too busy /active. Both occupied and busy can be followed by with and the relevant activity, as in the examples given. ■ Engaged emphasizes the fact that someone has no time or attention left for any new activities or demands; in this sense it is somewhat formal (you'll have to wait to see her, she's engaged at present ). Occupied and engaged (in this sense ) always follow the verb to be, rather than being used before a noun. ■ To say that someone is active is to say that they are doing a great deal (she has been active in local politics since 1985 ). The context or area in which they are active is often expressed by an adverb, such as sexually, physically, or politically. These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

busybody

busybody noun others considered him an interfering busybody: meddler, interferer, mischief-maker, troublemaker, gossip, scandalmonger, muckraker, eavesdropper, intruder, ghoul, gawker; informal nosy parker, snoop, snooper, rubberneck; Brit. informal gawper; N. Amer. informal buttinsky; informal, dated Paul Pry; rare pryer, pry.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

busy

bus y /bɪ́zi / (! -u-は /ɪ /) (副 )busily 形容詞 -ier ; -iest 1 a. 〖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 ) ; 〖be busy doing 〗…するのに忙しい (! be busy in doingは今は ｟まれ ｠) (occupied )(↔free )▸ She's always busy working [with work, at work ].彼女はいつも仕事で忙しい (╳… busy to work. としない )▸ be busy with a customer [a full schedule ]客の対応に [予定がいっぱいで ]忙しい ▸ a busy person 多忙な人 ▸ I'm kind of busy (right ) now [｟主に英 ｠at the moment ].今ちょっと手がふさがっています ▸ I'm too busy to go out with her .忙しくて彼女とデートができない ▸ John keeps himself busy every day .ジョンは毎日多忙にしている ▸ I know you're busy, but could I ask you a few questions?お忙しいでしょうが, 2, 3お尋ねしてよろしいでしょうか コミュニケーション A: I need to talk to you . 話があるんだ .B: Not now, I'm busy . 後でね, 今手が離せないんだ .❢多忙で即座の対応を断るときの決まり文句 .b. 〖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 ▸ That'll keep me busy .それは忙しくなりそうだ ▸ “Have you been keeping busy? ” “Yeah, too busy . [Not really. ]”「忙しくしてるかい 」「ああ, てんてこ舞いだよ [そうでもないよ ]」 (!(1 )近況を聞くあいさつ; ｟くだけて ｠では質問冒頭のHave, Have you, Have you beenは省略されることがある. (2 )I've been keeping [Been keeping, Keeping ] busy . やI've been keeping [Been keeping, Keeping ] myself busy . と答えることもある ) c. 〖be ～〗 «…に /…することに » 気を取られている «with /do ing » ▸ be busy with one's computer コンピュータに気をとられている ▸ He was too busy making money .彼は金もうけのことばかり考えていた 2 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗せわしい, 忙しい 〈時期 生活など 〉(hectic )(↔quiet )▸ take (the ) time off one's busy schedule (to do …)(…するために )忙しい予定の中から時間を割く ▸ lead a busy life せわしい生活を送る ▸ I've had [It's been ] a busy day .今日は忙しい1日だった 3 «…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 » ▸ the world's busiest airport 世界で最も発着数の多い空港 ▸ The street was busy with pedestrians and traffic .通りは歩行者や車で混雑していた 4 比較なし ｟主に米 ｠〖通例be ～〗〈電話回線が 〉話し中で [の ] (｟英 ｠engaged ).コミュニケーション A: Can I speak to Mr. Johnson, please? ジョンソンさんをお願いします .B: The line is busy . May I put you on hold for a while? 話し中ですのでしばらくそのままお待ちください .❢交換手が言う .5 ｟けなして ｠〈模様 柄が 〉ごちゃごちゃした, うるさい .g è t b ú sy 1 仕事にかかる ▸ Let's get busy !さあ仕事に取りかかろう 2 ｟米俗 ｠セックスする .動詞 他動詞 〖～ oneself 〗 «…で /…して » 忙しく動き回る «with , at , about /(by [with ]) do ing » ▸ Mary busied herself with breakfast. ≒ … (by [with ]) preparing breakfast .メリーは朝食の準備に忙しかった (!｟コーパス ｠do ingが続くときは 前置詞 はしばしば省略される ) ～̀ b é e ｟くだけて ｠いつも忙しくしている人 .～̀ L í zzie 〘植 〙アフリカホウセンカ .～́ s ì gnal [t ò ne ]｟米 ｠(電話で )話し中 [通話中 ]の信号音 ▸ I'm getting [I hear ] a busy signal .話し中の信号音が鳴っているよ ～́ w ò rk ｟米 ｠時間つぶしの仕事 [活動 ].～ness 名詞 忙しいこと, 多忙 ; (街の )にぎやかさ .

 

busybody

b ú sy b ò dy 名詞 複 -ies C ｟非難して ｠おせっかい屋, でしゃばり (｟英 ｠nosy parker ).

 

busywork

b ú sy w ò rk 名詞 U ｟米 ｠時間つぶしの仕事 [勉強 ].