busy
adjective
actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime.
unbusy
-
a word derived from
busy.
Example Sentences
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That unbusy feeling has attracted families like Paula Kelley’s for generations.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
And if you consider how laughably unbusy Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen was, compared with our own age, those subjective tweets and hasty blog posts don’t seem so essayistic.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2017
At the trendy Butcher and the Brewer, I sat for several long minutes before any of the five faces behind the epic but unbusy bar bothered to make eye contact.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2016
The dashboard, knobs and switches are all within easy reach, and designed with an unbusy simplicity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2015
Hickman is a sort of fiddling, busy, yet, to borrow a word from you, unbusy man: has a great deal to do, and seems to me to dispatch nothing.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
