Crossword clues for busier
busier
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativebusy)
WordNet
See busy
adj. actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy" [ant: idle]
overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" [syn: fussy]
intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busybodied]
crowdedwith or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal" [syn: engaged, in use(p)]
Usage examples of "busier".
When she drove down Main Street a little shy of eight, it was already busier than an ordinary Saturday noon, and among the faces on the sidewalk there were gratifyingly few she knew.
So was the street, except for the neighborhood dogs, who were busier than ever right now, racing around with their noses high and their ears pricked, all anticipation.
The motes were getting busier all the time, as though inspired by what she was saying.
When I found out she had a man with her I thought anxiously about the crooks preying on Sleepers that Bernstein had lectured me about and got busier than ever.
Back in those days the okiya and teahouses in Gion were all linked by a private telephone system, and Yoko was kept busier than almost anyone in our okiya, answering that telephone to book Hatsu-momo's engagements, sometimes for banquets or parties six months to a year in advance.
Hatsumomo was busier than usual during the daytime because of all the blossom-viewing parties.
But she'd been much busier than usual lately, traveling frequently to Tokyo at the request of her danna, with the result that we hadn't set eyes on each other in nearly six months.
The multitude of smells in that room gave the dog a momentary glimpse of a larger and busier life.
Behind those walls, and below the ground, things were busier than ever in the history of Princeton.
It was still busier than Valas had ever remembered, but at the higher levels, it was at least tolerable.
When they first joined it there were few other travellers using it but as the day passed it became much busier, traffic entering at almost every junction.
These were the only Shire-services, and the Messengers were the most numerous, and much the busier of the two.
They reminded her of those in some of the busier national parks back in the United States .
It was a much busier operation than any he’d known in space before leaving Earth orbit.
The bookstore -- "just off Broadway, rare books and technical texts in Good Condition" -- was busier than usual because of the two Puerto Rican boys who had approached him the previous Monday as he was unlocking the shop.