Synonym: bemused, deep in thought, haunted, lost, obsessed, taken up. Similar words: preoccupation, occupy, occupant, occupation, occur, jupiter, cup, pie. Meaning: [‚prɪ'ɑkjəpaɪd /-ɒkjʊ-] adj. 1. deeply absorbed in thought 2. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
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61. Simon and John hinted that he was preoccupied, but in fan he was downright bloody rude, and everybody knew it.
62. He must not miss a chance when it comes through being preoccupied with something else.
63. Prajapat glanced up with a preoccupied smile, then went back to the map.
64. Needing to do something, anything, he rapidly tapped the spoon against the saucer as though preoccupied with a mathematical calculation.
65. The picaresque literature of the period is also very preoccupied with food and drink.
66. David was coming from his own lodging, pale and grave and preoccupied, with his child-wife by the hand.
67. And though I tried to respond, I was mostly preoccupied with my pain.
68. She is preoccupied with the chimney opposite her balcony, against which a shape is leaning.
69. We are too preoccupied with our own thoughts to listen for understanding.
70. Instead, he became preoccupied with civil service and tried to put more and more city employees under its protection.
71. I was quite preoccupied with how big bodies like this were accountable and served people's needs.
72. Sarah seemed completely preoccupied by the last mouthful of toast.
73. She was too preoccupied by her inner turmoil to fully appreciate the bubbling volcanic mud pools in the weird,(sentencedict.com) lunar-like springs.
74. This was easier because everyone was so preoccupied with other matters.
75. If the masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns, the revolutionaries would take matters into their own hands.
76. These questions have preoccupied fine minds for centuries, with interest intensifying from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
77. Kitty was totally preoccupied with the threatened invasion, and to tell her this would be asking for trouble.
78. The damaged left eye seemed to turn in another direction, to be preoccupied separately with different matters.
79. The Jana'ata, preoccupied with larger affairs, pressed no charges and released Sandoz to the custody of the Consortium.
80. Initially the engine refused to start for my grim, preoccupied father.
81. I have to admit, I was preoccupied with how I would feel in the ring mentally.
82. She took her leave and went in search of Stephen, preoccupied by her thoughts.
83. Mainly because, as a child, I was too preoccupied with Chanukah to care what my gentile friends were doing.
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84. If the loose ferrets make contact with the wounded rabbits they become preoccupied, stay where they are and do not resurface.
85. Both antagonists, however, were by now either too weak politically or too preoccupied to resume serious hostilities for the moment.
86. I admit I'm preoccupied and snappy at the moment -- I'm sorry.
87. Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self, the repressed human essence.
88. Finally, the western democracies were soon to be preoccupied by new threats.
89. The experience was enough to keep him preoccupied for some time.
90. Remember: throughout the book Don Quixote is preoccupied by the question of posterity.
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