preoccupied
Meaning of preoccupied
adjective
- Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
- Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym.
- To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.
The father tried to preoccupy the child with his keys.
- To occupy or take possession of beforehand.
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Hyphenation of preoccupied
pre-oc-cu-pied
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- preoccupied is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
preoccupied synonyms
Meaning bemused:
Meaning haunted:
Translation of preoccupied
- Spanish: absorto, perdido, preocupado
- Italian: assorto, preoccupato, perso
Words that rhyme with preoccupied
pied, passepied, magpied, canopied, copied, microcopied, miscopied, overcanopied, photocopied, precopied, recopied, uncanopied, uncopied, crippied, happied, poppied, puppied, unhappied, espied, outsparspied, outspied, spied, unespied, unspied, disoccupied, misoccupied, occupied, overpreoccupied, reoccupied, underoccupied, unoccupied, unpreoccupied
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