Crossword-Solution: BUSY 4 letters, 219 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Busy	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.
Busy	a.	Constantly at work; diligent; active.
Busy	a.	Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.
Busy	a.	Officious; meddling; foolish active.
Busy	a.	Careful; anxious.
Busy	v. t.	To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BUSY	anagram	BUYS

We have 219 clues for the answer “BUSY”

Clue	Answers
"10-6," in C.B. lingo	1 answer
Body or work preceder	1 answer
Booked solid	1 answer
Distractingly detailed	1 answer
Doing something	1 answer
EXCESSIVELY full of detail	1 answer
Engaged in work	1 answer
Having a great deal to do	1 answer
Having lots to do	1 answer
Having many irons in the fire	1 answer
In use, as a phone line	1 answer
Kind of phone signal that's nearly obsolete	1 answer
Like a hive	1 answer
Like a madras pattern	1 answer
Like a phone in use	1 answer
Like bees or beavers	1 answer
Like one with a full schedule	1 answer
Like retailers during holiday season	1 answer
Like some phone lines	1 answer
Multitasking, perhaps	1 answer
Not at all idle	1 answer
Not taking calls, perhaps	1 answer
Occupied with many things	1 answer
Occupied with work	1 answer
On a tight schedule	1 answer
On another call	1 answer
Opposite of plain	1 answer
Otherwise occupied	1 answer
Overly adorned	1 answer
Overly detailed	1 answer
Packed with activity	1 answer
Packed with customers	1 answer
Phillipps of "Love, Inc."	1 answer
Phone signal	1 answer
Possessing a full schedule	1 answer
Really jumping	1 answer
Serving many customers	1 answer
Signal or work starter	1 answer
Slammed with work	1 answer
Status represented by a red dot	1 answer
Tied up, as a phone line	1 answer
Unable to get away	1 answer
Unable to hang out right now, say	1 answer
Unable to take a call, perhaps	1 answer
Wharton dogs	1 answer
Word with body or work	1 answer
___ as a bee	1 answer
on assignment	1 answer
Hardly idle	2 answers
Currently unavailable	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

ARAE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with BUSY (5)

And when all the guests had finished, Old Nokomis, brisk and busy, From an ample pouch of otter, Filled the red-stone pipes for smoking With tobacco from the South-land, Mixed with bark of the red willow, And with herbs and leaves of fragrance.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Don’t grudge your mother a little time for plowing her garden and setting out fruit trees, even if it comes in a busy season.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

That night at Coggan’s, Gabriel Oak, beneath the screen of closed eyelids, was busy with fancies, and full of movement, like a river flowing rapidly under its ice.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Often if the administrator of a list is busy (remember, this is all peripheral to real jobs and real work), many users find it necessary to ask again and again, often with harsher and harsher language, to be removed from a list.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilisation progressed.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with BUSY (3)

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Jon Katz

If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs…

Greg Behrendt

I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.

Greg Behrendt

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 140 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).