Busy and Mean

Busy

Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.

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

Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Mean

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

Busy and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Mean".

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

love busy love mean love
people busy people mean people
time busy time mean time
way busy way mean way
Other words: nothing.

Both words in one sentence

  • Squirrels in My Pants Now everytime I get busy, Now everytime I want get down and dance, Because everytime I start moving like this, What that mean, got ants in me pants.
  • Reynolds was busy proving that just because you aren't taking the film seriously doesn't mean you can't have a blast taking your character as seriously as he merits.
  • Useful Notes / The Renaissance Spain had his own hands busy dealing with Chibiromano (South Italy) and how much of a mean brat he was in comparison to his younger, more talented brother.
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