Busy
- a. Careful; anxious.
- a. 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.
- a. Constantly at work; diligent; active.
- a. Crowded with business or activities; — said of places and times; as, a busy street.
- a. Officious; meddling; foolish active.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.