preoccupied English

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preoccupied Adjective

— When you are preoccupied with something, you are concerned about it or simply thinking about it instead of focusing on the current task you are doing. I was so preoccupied with changing the channel on the car's radio set that I did not see the red light.

preoccupied

— adjective (= haunted, obsessed, taken up) 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

— adjective (= bemused, lost) 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

Synonyms preoccupied synonyms

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preoccupied English » English

engrossed

absorbed

worried

lost in thought

lost

busy

bemused

anxious

abstracted

taken up

restless

obsessed

hungup

haunted

engaged

deep in thought

unhappy

uneasy

sullen

straightly

solicitous

sad

ruthful

rapt

not free

meditative

involved

incapacitated

incapable

guilty conscience

fixedly

enwrapped

distracted

disabled

depressed

concerned

concentrating

careworn

captive

apprehensive

angry

abstractedly

Topics preoccupied topics

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Person Healthy

Mental illness

• What words describe someone who is mentally ill?
  mentally ill insane mad crazy disturbed mentally disabled crackbrained crazed demonized demon possessed feeble minded melancholic neurotic obsessive paranoid preoccupied psychopathic psychotic retarded catatonic

Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention

• What words refer to paying too much attention to something?
  be engrossed in be wrapped up in be absorbed in be immersed in immerse yourself in preoccupied

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

• What words refer to being worried all the time?
  have a lot on your mind be under a strain preoccupied stressed out