preoccupied
Adjective
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Adjective
preoccupied
- Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
- I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
- (taxonomy, not comparable) Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym.
- French: préoccupé
- German: gedankenverloren, in Gedanken woanders, tief beschäftigt
- Italian: preoccupato
- Portuguese: preocupado
- Spanish: preocupado, ensimismado, obsesionado
- Simple past tense and past participle of preoccupy
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