preoccupied

Meanings

Verb

• engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
• occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance
  • "the army preoccupied the hills"
• simple past and past participle of preoccupy

Adjective Satellite

• deeply absorbed in thought
  • "a preoccupied frown"
• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
  • "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"

Adj

• Prepossessed; biased.
• Already occupied.
• Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.
• Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.

Synonyms

bemused, deep in thought, haunted, lost, obsessed, preoccupy, taken up