adj
Meaning 1
Prepossessed; biased.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
preoccupied
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adj
Meaning 2
Already occupied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
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adj
Meaning 4
Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
simple past and past participle of preoccupy
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle
- was absolutely obsessed with the girl
- got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children
- he was taken up in worry for the old woman
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: haunted, obsessed, taken up(p)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
deeply absorbed in thought
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
- lost in thought
- a preoccupied frown
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p)
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Biatah Bidayuh: ibaat — concerned with something else, distracted
- Bulgarian: разсеян (razsejan) — concerned with something else, distracted
- Czech: zaujatý (čím) — concerned with something else, distracted
- Czech: zaměstnaný (čím) — concerned with something else, distracted
- Dutch: afwezig — concerned with something else, distracted
- Dutch: in gedachten verzonken — concerned with something else, distracted
- Finnish: but see syventynyt — concerned with something else, distracted
- Finnish: keskittynyt — concerned with something else, distracted
- Finnish: viedä huomio — concerned with something else, distracted
- French: préoccupé — concerned with something else, distracted
- German: gedankenverloren — concerned with something else, distracted
- German: in Gedanken woanders — concerned with something else, distracted
- German: tief beschäftigt — concerned with something else, distracted
- Greek: προβληματισμένος (provlimatisménos) — concerned with something else, distracted
- Hungarian: belefeledkezett — concerned with something else, distracted
- Italian: preoccupato — concerned with something else, distracted
- Khmer: ខ្វល់ (kvɑl) — concerned with something else, distracted
- Malay: leka — concerned with something else, distracted
- Manx: boirit — concerned with something else, distracted
- Māori: pakihaha — concerned with something else, distracted
- Māori: māharahara — concerned with something else, distracted
- Māori: warea — concerned with something else, distracted
- Polish: zatroskany — concerned with something else, distracted
- Polish: zaniepokojony — concerned with something else, distracted
- Polish: zafrapowany — concerned with something else, distracted
- Polish: zamyślony — concerned with something else, distracted
- Polish: zmartwiony — concerned with something else, distracted
- Portuguese: preocupado — concerned with something else, distracted
- Romanian: preocupat — concerned with something else, distracted
- Spanish: ensimismado — concerned with something else, distracted
- Spanish: obsesionado — concerned with something else, distracted
- Ottoman Turkish: مشغول (meşgul) — concerned with something else, distracted
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