Preoccupied is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREOCCUPIED in dictionary:

VERB:
• PREOCCUPY, to engross or fill the mind of
• (of a matter or subject) dominate or engross the mind of (someone) to the exclusion of other thoughts
ADJECTIVE:
• deeply absorbed in thought
• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• previously applied to another group and unavailable for use in a new sense —used of a biological generic or specific name

Words related to PREOCCUPIED

preoccupy20

Words that contain PREOCCUPIED

unpreoccupied22

How to use PREOCCUPIED in a sentence

• Even Bismarck looked less preoccupied, as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
• Doubtless Sarah Gailey, preoccupied and worried by new responsibilities, desired to avoid the added care of nursing the sick.
• All these middle-aged women were preoccupied by the affair of George Cannon.
• I was a little preoccupied and was not noticing him.
• But he seemed to be completely preoccupied with his markmanship, and paid her no heed.
• His preoccupied look indicated that he was working out some plan and did not understand how bold she had been.
• And the next afternoon he reappeared, and sat silent, preoccupied, for a long time, in the peculiar hushed attitude of a man who listens.
• So deeply was I preoccupied with this baffling problem that I fear I clattered my bones but half heartedly in our musical concerts.
• She found him very quiet and preoccupied, on the return journey, but his presence no longer dismayed her.
• Make no complaints, and never approach him with your caresses at times when his mind is preoccupied or his temper ruffled.
• This idea, I must frankly declare, had preoccupied me during the whole of the visit.
• Yeats has, however, been true from the start, and from the start, too, there has never been a time the two he has not been preoccupied with dream.
• He looked grave and preoccupied, and hardly answered a question of Mr.
• Ransom was evidently preoccupied with Verena, but he had not needed Mrs.
• She was still confused and preoccupied, but when rallied upon her silence she brightened up for a moment and tried to look buoyant and happy.
• He grew uneasy, darkly preoccupied, and inefficient.
• He was much too preoccupied with an analysis of his own share of these encounters.
• Happily she made no remark, being preoccupied with the binding of the chair.
• I staid at another hotel, where I found one of those pre-occupied beds which travelers in the East so often find.
• This question preoccupied him, for it was possible that from the way the hat inclined, that is to say, towards the north, the plateau was not practicable.
• No wonder that the tea-party, every member of it tremendously preoccupied by the great battle, was not distinguished by light and natural gaiety.
• They were all middle-aged, sedate and preoccupied with their own little affairs.
• When any one addressed him he seemed preoccupied in his mind, he who had never before had two ideas in his head.
• Augustine, which he was forced to write in Latin for the following week, and which preoccupied him a good deal.
• She saw him again at the midday meal, but he ate in haste and seemed preoccupied, departing again at the earliest moment possible.
• Clearly she was preoccupied, if not worried, and the unexpected sight of her parent forced her, as it were, unwillingly from one absorbing train of ideas into another.
• And Helen, though preoccupied herself by matters of the highest personal importance, did what she could to remedy a state of affairs so unusual.
• Tucker had been less preoccupied her resentment would have abated.
• If Lord Tancred had not been so preoccupied with his own thoughts he would have remarked this restlessness on the part of his host.
• Stout, sedate-looking pigs, hurried by each morning to their places of business, with a preoccupied air, and sonorous greeting to their friends.

Similar words containing OCCUPI without suffix ed and without prefix pre

occupied15 occupier14 occupies14 occupiers15 reoccupied17 reoccupies16 unoccupied17 preoccupies19 underoccupied21 unpreoccupied22

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