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| Main Entry: |
tie/tie up
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hamper, hinder |
| Synonyms: | bind, clog, confine, curb, delay, entrammel, fetter, hog-tie, hold, leash, limit, lock up, obstruct, restrain, restrict, shackle, stop, tie one's hands, trammel |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, encourage, free, help |
| Main Entry: | busy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | engaged, at work |
| Synonyms: | active, already taken, assiduous, at it, buried, diligent, employed, engaged, engrossed, having a full plate, having enough on one's plate, having fish to fry, having many irons in the fire, hustling, in a meeting, in conference, in someone else's possession, in the field, in the laboratory, industrious, occupied, on assignment, on duty, on the go, overloaded, persevering, slaving, snowed, swamped, tied up, unavailable, up to one's ears, with a customer, working |
| Antonyms: | idle, quiet, unbusy, unemployed, unengaged |
| Main Entry: | engaged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | operating; busy |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, at work, committed, connected with, dealing in, deep, doing, employed, engrossed, immersed, in place, in use, intent, interested, involved, occupied, performing, practicing, preoccupied, pursuing, rapt, signed, tied up, unavailable, working, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | disengaged, inoperable, not working |
| Main Entry: | engrossed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preoccupied; attentive to |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, all wound up, assiduous, bugged, busy, captivated, caught up, caught up in, consumed, deep, diligent, engaged, enthralled, fascinated, fiend for, gone*, gripped, head over heels, heavily into, hooked, hung up, immersed, industrious, intent, into*, intrigued, lost, monopolized, occupied, rapt, really into, riveted, sedulous, submerged, taken up with, tied up, turned on, up to here in, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | bored, disenthralled, disinterested, ignoring, inattentive, oblivious, uncaring, uninterested, unoccupied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | finished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complete, done |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, achieved, brought about, ceased, closed, come to an end, compassed, concluded, consummated, decided, discharged, dispatched, disposed of, done for, done with, effected, effectuated, elaborated, ended, entire, executed, final, finalized, fulfilled, full, in the past, lapsed, made, over, over and done, perfected, performed, put into effect, realized, resolved, satisfied, settled, sewn up, shut, stopped, terminated, through, tied up, worked out, wound up, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | crude, incomplete, unfinished |
| Main Entry: | immersed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deeply involved with |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, bound-up, buried, busy, consumed, deep, eat sleep and breathe, engaged, engrossed, intent, into*, mesmerized, occupied, preoccupied, rapt, spellbound, taken up, tied up, turned on, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, neglectful, negligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inseparable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to be divided |
| Synonyms: | as one, attached, conjoined, connected, entwined, inalienable, indissoluble, indivisible, inseverable, integral, integrated, intertwined, interwoven, molded, secure, tied up, unified, united, whole |
| Antonyms: | dividable, separable |
| Main Entry: | obsessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, driven about belief, desire |
| Synonyms: | bedeviled, beset, bewitched, captivated, controlled, dogged, dominated, eat sleep and breathe, engrossed, fiendish, fixated, gripped, harassed, haunted, have on the brain, held, hooked, hung up on, immersed in, infatuated, into*, overpowered, plagued, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, really into, seized, taken over, tied up, tormented, troubled, turned on, up to here in, wound up with, wrapped up in |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconcerned |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | occupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy |
| Synonyms: | active, clocked up, employed, engaged, engrossed, head over heels, tied up, too much on plate, working |
| Notes: | occupied means in use or seized and controlled as by military invasion; preoccupied means deeply absorbed in thought or having compulsive concern with something |
| Antonyms: | idle, inactive, not busy, unoccupied |
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