Busy and Limited

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Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.

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Limited and busy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Limited" instead an adjective "Busy".

Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Limited adjective - Having distinct or certain limits.

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Busy and limited are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Limited".

Nearby Words: limit, limitation, limiting

Their resources and manpower are limited, and the only reason they aren't wiped out is that the big boys of Aeon War are too busy killing each other.

Source: Fan Fic / Aeon Entelechy Evangelion
In The Lord of the Rings, the Fallen Angel Sauron is busy conquering and wrecking the place up while his good counterparts are limited to guiding and influencing the Free Peoples and are forbidden to try to match him strength-for-strength.

Source: Good Is Impotent
In Archer when something needs to be done in ISIS it's only limited to the core 8 cast members doing something about it, the rest of the other nameless employees in the office do nothing but just be there to show how busy the office is.

Source: The Main Characters Do Everything

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