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If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
Lincoln Ellsworth

Meaning of "preoccupied" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PREOCCUPIED

preoccupied  [priːˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREOCCUPIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Preoccupied is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PREOCCUPIED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of preoccupied in the English dictionary

The first definition of preoccupied in the dictionary is engrossed or absorbed in something, esp one's own thoughts. Other definition of preoccupied is already or previously occupied. Preoccupied is also already used to designate a genus, species, etc.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREOCCUPIED


enemy-occupied
ˌenəmɪˈɒkjʊpaɪd
occupied
ˈɒkjʊpaɪd
owner-occupied
ˌəʊnəʳˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
pied
paɪd
polypide
ˈpɒlɪˌpaɪd
self-preoccupied
ˌsɛlfprɪˈɒkjʊpaɪd
spide
ˈspaɪd
underoccupied
ˌʌndərˈɒkjʊpaɪd
unespied
ˌʌnɪˈspaɪd
unoccupied
ʌnˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
unpreoccupied
ˌʌnprɪˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
unspied
ʌnˈspaɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREOCCUPIED

preobtain
preoccupancy
preoccupant
preoccupate
preoccupation
preoccupies
preoccupy
preocular
preopening
preoperational
preoperative
preoperatively
preoption
preoral
preordain
preordained
preordainment
preorder
preordinance
preordination

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREOCCUPIED

canopied
carried
certified
classified
copied
deep-fried
espied
identified
married
modified
passepied
photocopied
poppied
reoccupied
specified
spied
studied
supplied
tried
verified

Synonyms and antonyms of preoccupied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PREOCCUPIED»

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

Translation of «preoccupied» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREOCCUPIED

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

Translator English - Chinese

全神贯注的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

absorto
570 millions of speakers

English

preoccupied
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेचैन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَشْغُولُ البَال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

озабоченный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

preocupado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উন্মনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

préoccupé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sibuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gedankenverloren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

余念のない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

몰두한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Disenengi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bận tâm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆழ்ந்த சிந்தனையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ताब्यात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dalgın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preoccupato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pochłonięty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зайнятий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

preocupat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συλλογισμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

besig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tankfull
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

åndsfraværende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of preoccupied

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREOCCUPIED»

The term «preoccupied» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREOCCUPIED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «preoccupied» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «preoccupied» 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 preoccupied

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10 QUOTES WITH «PREOCCUPIED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word preoccupied.
1
Karen Armstrong
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
2
Paul Berg
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
3
Jacqueline Bisset
Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.
4
Bruno Dumont
When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
5
Lincoln Ellsworth
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
6
Betty Ford
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
7
LZ Granderson
We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
8
Raul Julia
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
9
Val Kilmer
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
10
Talib Kweli
You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREOCCUPIED»

Discover the use of preoccupied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to preoccupied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Preoccupied With My Father
A combination of poetry and expressionistic paintings portray the heartbreaking and hard-fought life as well as the burial rituals after the death of Yoel Schneiderman in this innovative biography.
Simon Schneiderman, 2007
2
Attachment in Psychotherapy
The. Preoccupied. Patient. Making. Room. for. a. Mind. of. One's. Own. P. atients with a predominantly preoccupied state of mind with re- spect to attachment are in many ways the polar opposite of dismissing patients. The latter often appear ...
David J. Wallin, 2007
3
Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and ...
Preoccupied Attachment Preoccupied (or anxious-ambivalent) attachment is characterized by the combination of a negative self model and a positive model of others. Preoccupied individuals are preoccupied with their attachment needs and ...
W. John Livesley, 2001
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Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, Individual Bases of ...
particularly strong when preoccupied teens are exposed to intrapsychic states or environments that are confusing or enmeshed. For example, preoccupied adolescents display higher levels of depression when their mothers cannot display ...
Richard M. Lerner, Laurence Steinberg, PhD, 2009
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Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: The 'secure Base' ...
Preoccupied attachment Experiences of inconsistent and insensitive caregiving are thought to contribute to preoccupied attachment – defined in terms of a positive model of others, but negative model of the self. This kind of parenting may lead ...
Christopher F. Clulow, 2001
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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based ...
Interestingly, preoccupied individuals may seem needy and disclosive in treatment yet may not be more compliant [28, 63, 66]. Dozier [66] examined this question in a sample of 40 young adults who were receiving inpatient treatment for a ...
Raymond A. Levy, J. Stuart Ablon, Horst Kächele, 2011
7
The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
to point out that individuals with a preoccupied attachment style “actively seek to gain their attachment figure's approval in order to validate their tenuous sense of self WO11Il1. Their feelings of unworthiness and strong approach orientation are  ...
J. Reid Meloy, 2001
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Comparing Attachment Across Relationship Domains: Measure of ...
Pairwise Comparisons of the New Subscales (left) based upon Paragraph Selections (top) Secure Dismissing Preoccupied Disorganized New Subscales Ambivalent 2.14g 2.12h 4.62i 3.31 (1.00) (1.08) (1.38) (1.41) *Standard Deviations ...
Kimberly D. Smith, 2009
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Coping and Complaining: Attachment and the Language of Dis-ease
Childhood and the preoccupied type C classification Amongst infants the smallest proportion are classified as type C, yet this rapidly changes in the early preschool period so that they hecome the most frequent classification in the preschool ...
Simon R. Wilkinson, 2003
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Violence and Addiction Equation: Theoretical and Clinical ...
Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart(1994) predicted that familyoriented batterers wouldbe characterizedby either a secure attachment style ora preoccupied, anxious attachment style,while dysphoric/borderline battererswould have a preoccupied ...
Christine Wekerle, Anne-Marie Wall, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREOCCUPIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term preoccupied is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Radicals' only hit, “You Get What You Give,” was secretly …
As he recalled in the same 2014 interview, he was disappointed that these fame-preoccupied lines took precedence over the other, more ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
2
Ballers Recap: Everybody Plays the Fool
The episode ended with him getting that MRI, but Spencer wasn't completely preoccupied with his mortality this week. He also had to get Ricky ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
3
5 thoughts on Huckabee's appallingly offensive "oven door …
But Huckabee is one of a number of evangelists who are quite preoccupied with Israel, and especially since the 1980s have expressed this as ... «Vox, Jul 15»
4
What? You Stopped Following Baseball?!
I tell them I'm at another stage in my life now, and I have more-preferable things to do with my time than being preoccupied with baseball. «Parade, Jul 15»
5
George Woloshyn: The fat lady from Minsk
Instead, he was preoccupied with getting to the phones, even before the bottom of his seat had cooled, to order a full frontal assault on Donetsk ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
6
Rebecca and Garnett Genius deal with unexpected home birth
But seeing as she was a bit preoccupied, the task of actually delivering Judah fell into Garnett's hands. "I have no medical training whatsoever. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
7
Tim Winton dives back into memoir – 25 years after his first dip
In it he writes: "To be a writer preoccupied with landscape is to accept a weird and constant tension between the indoors and the outdoors. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
Help Employees Make Sense of Cents
If your employees are preoccupied with debt, they just had another squabble with their spouse, or their kids come home and need something ... «Chief Learning Officer, Jul 15»
9
Man gets knocked out after throwing bottle into a crowd at party
... of the comments are messages of support to the man who knocked out the bottle-thrower, most users seem mainly to be preoccupied with the ... «Metro, Jul 15»
10
Australia's Jehovah's Witnesses Failed To Report 1006 Alleged …
He said the church was preoccupied with sin and sinning. "Jehovah's Witnesses believe the Bible is the inspired word of God and interpret it ... «KPBS, Jul 15»

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