Preoccupied

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preoccupy \Pre*oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preoccupied}
     (-p[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Preoccupying}.] [Cf. F.
     pr['e]occuper. See {Preoccupate}, {Occupy}.]
     1. To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a
        country not before held.
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     2. To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention
        of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
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              I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave
              something to reflections than to preoccupy his
              judgment.                             --Arbuthnot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  preoccupied
       adj 1: deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a
              professor listening to the prattling of his freshman
              class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown" [syn:
               {bemused}, {deep in thought(p)}, {lost(p)}]
       2: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with
          something; "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" [syn: {haunted},
           {obsessed}, {taken up(p)}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  preoccupy
       v 1: engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or
            occupy urgently or obsessively; "His work preoccupies
            him"; "The matter preoccupies her completley--she cannot
            think of anything else"
       2: occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or
          appropriate for use in advance; "the army preoccupied the
          hills"
       [also: {preoccupied}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  preoccupied
       See {preoccupy}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  151 Moby Thesaurus words for "preoccupied":
     absent, absentminded, absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, assiduous,
     bemused, besotted, blind, buried in, buried in thought,
     castle-building, caught up in, constant, contemplating,
     contemplative, continuing, daydreaming, daydreamy, deaf, deep,
     devoted, devoted to, diligent, dogged, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing,
     ecstatic, elsewhere, enduring, engaged, engaged in thought,
     engrossed, engrossed in, engrossed in thought, faithful, faraway,
     fixated, forgetful, gripped, half-awake, held, hung-up, immersed,
     immersed in, immersed in thought, immutable, in a reverie,
     in the clouds, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable,
     industrious, infatuated, insensible, insistent, intent, intent on,
     introspective, invincible, involved, lasting, lost, lost in,
     lost in thought, loyal, meditating, meditative, monomaniac,
     monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing,
     napping, never-tiring, nodding, oblivious, obsessed, obstinate,
     occupied, patient, patient as Job, pensive, permanent, perseverant,
     persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pipe-dreaming,
     plodding, plugging, possessed, prepossessed, rapt, relentless,
     resolute, sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging,
     somewhere else, stable, stargazing, steadfast, steady, stubborn,
     studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up,
     taken up with, tenacious, tireless, totally absorbed, transported,
     unabating, unconquerable, unconscious, undaunted, undiscouraged,
     undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
     unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
     unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering,
     unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless,
     woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up,
     wrapped up in