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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
Robert Shea

Meaning of "busily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BUSILY

busily  [ˈbɪzɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUSILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Busily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES BUSILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of busily in the English dictionary

The definition of busily in the dictionary is in a busy manner; industriously.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BUSILY


breezily
ˈbriːzɪlɪ
clumsily
ˈklʌmzɪlɪ
cosily
ˈkəʊzɪlɪ
cozily
ˈkəʊzɪlɪ
crazily
ˈkreɪzɪlɪ
dizzily
ˈdɪzɪlɪ
drowsily
ˈdraʊzɪlɪ
easily
ˈiːzɪlɪ
flimsily
ˈflɪmzɪlɪ
frizzily
ˈfrɪzɪlɪ
frowzily
ˈfraʊzɪlɪ
gauzily
ˈɡɔːzɪlɪ
glazily
ˈɡleɪzɪlɪ
hazily
ˈheɪzɪlɪ
lazily
ˈleɪzɪlɪ
mazily
ˈmeɪzɪlɪ
noisily
ˈnɔɪzɪlɪ
nosily
ˈnəʊzɪlɪ
rosily
ˈrəʊzɪlɪ
uneasily
ʌnˈiːzɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUSILY

busied
busier
busies
busiest
business
business account
business accounting
Business and Technology Education Council
business angel
business card
business casual
business centre
business class
business college
business cycle
business end
business expense
business hours
business lunch
business manager

WORDS THAT END LIKE BUSILY

blousily
bossily
cheesily
classily
crusily
fussily
glassily
glossily
greasily
horsily
lousily
messily
mousily
mussily
pursily
queasily
sassily
tipsily
tossily
unfussily

Synonyms and antonyms of busily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BUSILY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «busily» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of busily

Translation of «busily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUSILY

Find out the translation of busily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of busily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «busily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

忙碌地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

afanosamente
570 millions of speakers

English

busily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जलदी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انكباب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

деловито
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atarefadamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তত্পরতাসহকারে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

activement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sibuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

eifrig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

精を出して
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부지런히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sibuk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bận rộn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுறுசுறுப்பாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खिन्नपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

meşgul bir şekilde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alacremente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skrzętnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

діловито
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δραστήρια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

besig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

busily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

travelt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of busily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUSILY»

The term «busily» is regularly used and occupies the 74.207 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BUSILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «busily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «busily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about busily

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7 QUOTES WITH «BUSILY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word busily.
1
Francis Asbury
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
2
Prince Charles
We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
3
Jeff Greenfield
Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.
4
John Redwood
The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
5
Robert Shea
Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
6
Hudson Stuck
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
7
Charles Sturt
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUSILY»

Discover the use of busily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to busily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Scratching, Patching, Busily Matching: An Anthology of ...
Scratching, Patching, Busily Matching presents a range of work by children who bring to poetry a sharpness of perception, a sense of creativity and a joy of language.
Stan Bailey, 1992
2
New Wave Spelling:
Answers 1. (a) married (b) copied (c) buries (d) happily (e) merrily (f) parties (g) dirtied (h) worried (i) busily (j) studies (k) carries (l) empties 2. (a) happily, merrily, busily (b) hap/pi/ly, mer/ri/ly, bu/si/ly 3. Across: married Down: merrily busily 7. 8.
R.I.C. Publications, 2006
3
Check, Or, Inquiry Into the Late Act of the Roman ...
This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher.
Henry Holden, 2010
4
The Discovery of Islands
Then when we came to Dominion Status, With a heigh-ho, the winds and the waves, Nor slump nor squeeze could alienate us, And the waves break busily night and day . . . Sir, have you thought what it's like to be, With a heigh-ho, the winds ...
J. G. A. Pocock, 2005
5
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Busies 306 Busies. And justify the hope that busies them 'a ... 919.76 Prince H. 1093 Busiest. So prattled Naddo, busiest of the tribe . . 124.23 Sord. 2.821 Busily. Busily blessing right and left, just stopped 138.40 Sord. 3.1003 Worked busily a ...
6
Problematic characters: a novel
Mother Claus had taken up her knitting and was at work as busily as the other day at a tiny child's sock, busily, busily, that the needles clinked merrily. Only from time to time she would look up at Oswald and nod kindly, as if she was glad that ...
Friedrich Spielhagen, Maximilian Schele de Vere, 1869
7
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of ...
In this wise he busily fed himself until nightfall; and after my coffee was made and drank, I uniformly moved him up, with his picket by my head, so that I could lay my hand upon his laso in an instant, in case of any alarm that was liable to drive ...
George Catlin, 1842
8
The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an ...
Soft ! so busily she turns the leaves2 ! Help her : what would she find ? — Lavinia , shall I read? This is the tragic tale of Philomel, And treats of Tereus' treason, and his rape ; And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy. Mar. See, brother, see ! note ...
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1842
9
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of ...
In this wise he busily fed himself until nightfall; and after my coffee was made and drank, I uniformly moved him up, with his picket by my head, so that I could lay my hand upon his laso in an instant, in case of any alarm that was liable to drive ...
George Catlin, 1841
10
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of ...
In this wise he busily fed himself until nightfall; and after my coffee was made and drank, I uniformly moved him up, with his picket by my head, so that I could lay my hand upon his laso in an instant, in case of any alarm that was liable to drive ...
George Catlin, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUSILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term busily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
South Sudan's Fourth Anniversary Offers Little to Celebrate
JUBA, South Sudan — The laborers, hundreds of them, were hard at work, busily fixing roads, painting buildings and making the parade ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Filling LA's new Broad museum is an art in itself
This whole time Latané and her crew of preparators have been busily hanging the panels on the wooden French cleats that came with the ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
3
Woodstock Solar Plan Withdrawn
Over the past few months, Wilson said, he and others have been busily calling, emailing and meeting up with people to raise enough money to ... «Valley News, Jul 15»
4
You Can Find Out Who Facebook Defriends You This Election Season
All the recent attention has bogged the app maker's servers a bit, and according to a recent Facebook post, they're busily trying to implement a ... «Mediaite, Jul 15»
5
The untold story of how today's fight over vaccines has its roots in …
... wife of Harvard mathematics professor John Winthrop, described the scene: 'Boston has given up its Fears of an invasion & is busily employd ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
6
Brisbane plans to become Asia-Pacific hub
... a lot of hard work to get international media to focus on a city when they are busily filing about the pressing international issues of the summit. «The Australian, Jul 15»
7
Japan: Women in the workforce
Mr Abe is busily trying to convince the public that the country has entered a new era. His decision to identify so-called “womenomics” as one of ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
8
Will Robots Care for You in Old Age?
The little saucer-like Roombas that meander across the floor vacuuming up behind you or busily mow your lawn are robotic systems. Relative robotic newcomer ... «Big Think, Jul 15»
9
FEATURE: "HYPERSONIC music club" - Chiptunes Girl TORIENA …
Meanwhile, HYPERSONIC music club artist Hiroyuki Takahashi is busily preparing the next pages of our story proper, so look for a short tease ... «Crunchyroll News, Jul 15»
10
More superb performances at Mimir Chamber Music Festival
Still, there are gestures familiar from the composer's symphonies: big chordal proclamations, patches of busily churning textures and a certain ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»

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