Busy and Empty

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Busy

Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.
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Antonyms for Busy
Empty is an antonym for busy.
Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Empty

Empty adjective - Not expressing any emotion.
Usage example: the refugees' faces had the dazed, empty look of despair
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Antonyms for Empty
Busy is an antonym for empty in topics: worthless, containing nothing.
Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily
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  • Near the end of "Love and Rocket", he realizes that Leela's oxygen tank is empty, and that she is too busy fixing the ship in order to save the lives of the crew to listen to his warnings.
    Source: Heroic Sacrifice / Western Animation
  • Spoiled Brat She has no siblings (that we see, anyway), and her parents are busy running the family corporate empire, so she's pretty much alone and already bored with the empty days of summer vacation.
    Source: Spoiled Brat
  • Web Video / What the Cut It doesn't show anything christian, but four naked guy wearing pink hoods and busy raping the scenery (which is full of empty beer bottles).
    Source: Web Video / What the Cut
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