Synonyms for Occupied:

adj.
• immersed
- bound up
- bound-up
- eat sleep and breathe
- taken up
- boundup
- eat sleep breathe
- more bound up
- more bound-up
- more boundup
- more mesmerized
- most bound up
- most bound-up
- most boundup
- most mesmerized
• populous
- heavily populated
- multitudinal
- overpopulated
- swarming
- thronged
• all
- occupied
• busy
- clocked up
- head over heels
- too much on plate
• diligent
- Operose
- grindest
- more diligent
- more persisting
- more plugging
- most persisting
- most plugging
- persistent
- steadfast
- un flagging
- un relenting
- un tiring
- un-flagging
- un-relenting
- un-tiring
• employed
- in job
- more inked
- more laboring
- most inked
- most laboring
- on job
- on payroll
- on the payroll
- operating
• engaged
- doinger
- doingest
- more practicing
- most practicing
- pre occupied
- pre-occupied
- pursuing
• engrossed
- caught in
- heavily in to
- in to
- more bugged
- more captivated
- more consumed
- more enthralled
- more gripped
- more in to
- more into
- more monopolized
- more riveted
- more submerged
- most bugged
- most captivated
- most consumed
- most enthralled
- most gripped
- most in to
- most into
- most monopolized
- most riveted
- most submerged
- really in to
- sub merged
- sub-merged
- taken with
- up here in
• entertained
- more cheered
- most cheered
• held
- de fended
- de-fended
- more believed
- more clutched
- more detained
- most believed
- most clutched
- most detained
• hustling
- more bustling
- most bustling
• inhabited; in use
- lived-in
- populated
- unavailable
• intent
- hell bent
- hell-bent
- in tense
- in tenser
- in tent
- in-tense
- in-tenser
- in-tensest
- in-tent
- more concentrating
- more minding
- more resolved
- most concentrating
- most minding
- most resolved
- re-solved
• interested
- Enticed
- ex cited
- ex-cited
- in spired
- in spirited
- in-spired
- in-spirited
- more attracted
- more awakened
- more enticed
- more inspirited
- more interested
- more lured
- more roused
- more stirred
- most attracted
- most awakened
- most enticed
- most inspirited
- most interested
- most lured
- most roused
- most stirred
- on case
- pre disposed
- pre-disposed
- struck
• involved
- embroiled
- enmeshed
- in criminated
- in-criminated
- knee deep in
- kneedeep in
- more embroiled
- more enmeshed
- more entangled
- more incriminated
- more participating
- most embroiled
- most enmeshed
- most entangled
- most incriminated
- most participating
- up neck in
- up one neck in
- up one's neck in
- up ones neck in
- up to neck in
- up to one neck in
- up to ones neck in
n.
- action
• inhabited
- inhabited
• on duty
- duty
v.
• captured
- Achieved
- Collared
- Gained
- Got
- Gotten
- Obtained
- Snared
- Snatched
- Took
- abducted
- apprehended
- secured
- won
• occupied
- Billeted
- Dwelled
- Housed
- Roosted
- Squatted
- Stayed
Other synonyms:

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interested

Other relevant words:

• busy

entertained
working

• engrossed

rapt

• full

Rented

• Other relevant words (adjective):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

Captured
Caught
Lodged
Quartered
Resided
arrested
colonized
seized
sublet

What are the paraphrases for Occupied?

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  occupy.
- Proper noun, singular
  occupy.
Reverse Entailment
- Adjective
  reoccupied, re-occupied, israeli-occupied.
- Verb, past participle
  preoccupied.
Independent
- Adjective
  busy, inhabited, manned, responsible, Occupying.
- Proper noun, singular
  busy, occupation, Occupying.
- Noun, plural
  jobs.
- Noun, singular or mass
  busy, occupation.
- Verb, past tense
  absorbed, addressed, appropriated, assumed, attached, attended, called, completed, conferred, conquered, considered, constituted, controlled, corruption, covered, dedicated, devoted, dominated, exploited, faced, featured, figured, filled, found, granted, handled, inhabited, led, made, maintained, manned, moved, placed, planted, processed, pursued, ranked, received, reported, represented, reserved, reside, restricted, secured, spent, topped, won, Accounted, Acted, Amounted, Was, Became, Came, Captured, Cared, Caught, Catered, Chaired, Claimed, Dealt, Deposited, Did, Discussed, Emerged, Enshrined, Entered, Exercised, Gained, Went, Got, Had, Invaded, Lasted, Lived, Managed, Occurred, Operated, Performed, Ran, Ranged, Remained, Responded, Resumed, Served, Were, Worked, Provided, Stayed, ensured, allocated.
- Verb, past participle
  absorbed, addressed, adopted, appointed, appropriated, arranged, arrested, assigned, assisted, assumed, attained, attended, become, chosen, closed, collected, come, completed, conducted, confiscated, considered, consumed, covered, dedicated, deducted, designed, devoted, discharged, disposed, distracted, dominated, done, elected, encumbered, equipped, established, exhausted, experienced, featured, figured, filled, flooded, focused, found, fulfilled, given, granted, habitat, handled, harried, heard, hired, imprisoned, included, indisposed, inhabited, left, let, linked, listed, located, made, maintained, manned, moved, opened, overrun, owned, paid, placed, plagued, played, pleased, processed, pursued, put, raised, ranked, received, represented, required, retained, satisfied, seen, seized, selected, settled, shared, sheltered, spent, studied, taken, tapped, tied, touched, traveled, treated, understood, usurped, wired, won, Accommodated, Accorded, Accounted, Acted, Attributed, Awarded, Been, Borne, Bridged, Brought, Captured, Cared, Carried, Claimed, Cohabited, Dealt, Detained, Discussed, Earmarked, Enshrined, Entered, Examined, Exercised, Exerted, Existed, Fitted, Followed, Frequented, Got, Had, Housed, Inaugurated, Installed, Invaded, Invoked, Lasted, Launched, Lived, Lodged, Looked, Managed, Met, Obtained, Operated, Performed, Pervaded, Reached, Recruited, Referred, Remained, Resided, Served, Tackled, Taxed, Undertaken, Visited, Worked, Comprised, Created, Provided, entrusted, ensured, allocated, hosted, withheld, phoned, staffed, monitored, mobilised, iived.
Other Related
- Verb, past tense
  busy, played, seized, reoccupied.
- Verb, past participle
  reoccupied.

What are the hypernyms for Occupied?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
abounding, busy, cluttered, employed, filled, held, inhabited, operating, owned, peopled, utilized, filled with, occupied by, inhabited by.

What are the hyponyms for Occupied?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Other hyponyms:
- n.
  owner-occupied.

What are the opposite words for occupied?

Occupied is a term that means busy or engaged. However, there are several antonyms to the word which include free, idle, unoccupied, vacant, and available. Free is the opposite of occupied and means having no obligation or commitment. Idle means being inactive or not working, while unoccupied is a state of an area or building that is not being utilized. Vacant means having no occupant or being unused, while available means being open or accessible to be used. All these antonyms correspond to the absence of engagement or utilization, unlike occupied which implies that someone or something is being used or engaged in an activity.

What are the antonyms for Occupied?

adj.
• all
- unoccupied
• available
- Securable
- at disposal
- at one disposal
- at one's disposal
- at ones disposal
- come at able
- come-at-able
- derivable from
- getatable
- more come at able
- more come-at-able
- more getatable
- more realizable
- more securable
- most come at able
- most come-at-able
- most getatable
- most realizable
- on deck
- on hand
- pre pared
- pre-pared
- pro curable
- pro-curable
- ready willing able
- ready willing and able
- up for grabs
• bare
- de sert
- de solate
- de-sert
- de-solate
- more unfurnished
- most unfurnished
- un furnished
- un-furnished
- unfurnished
• blank
- Wonderstruck
- at a loss
- at loss
- awestruck
- be wildered
- be-wildered
- dis concerted
- dis-concerted
- empty
- in expressive
- in scrutable
- in-expressive
- in-scrutable
- masklike
- more awestruck
- more nonplussed
- more poker faced
- more uncompleted
- more unexpressive
- most awestruck
- most masklike
- most nonplussed
- most poker faced
- most poker-faced
- most uncompleted
- most unexpressive
- most wonderstruck
- newest
- non committal
- non-committal
- out and out
- out right
- out righter
- out rightest
- out-right
- out-righter
- poker faced
- poker-faced
- re gular
- re-gular
- straight out
- straightout
- un completed
- un comprehending
- un conditional
- un expressive
- un filled
- un qualified
- un touched
- un used
- un-communicative
- un-completed
- un-comprehending
- un-conditional
- un-expressive
- un-filled
- un-marked
- un-qualified
- un-touched
- un-used
- uncompleted
- unexpressive
- unfilled
• busy
- free
- idle
- inactive
- not busy
- uninhabited
- vacant
• clear
- blank
- unblocked
• empty
- de spoiled
- de void
- de-spoiled
- de-void
- more despoiled
- more evacuated
- most despoiled
- most evacuated
- void
- wastest
• free
- COMP
- Chargeless
- Open-handed
- Unenslaved
- all owed
- all-owed
- at large
- at leisure
- at liberty
- autonomic
- big hearted
- comper
- compest
- costless
- dis engaged
- dis-engaged
- fancy free
- fancyfree
- for love
- free of cost
- free spirited
- free wheeling
- free-spirited
- freespirited
- freest
- freewheeling
- in dependent
- in formal
- in-dependent
- in-formal
- more allowed
- more chargeless
- more costless
- more emancipated
- more enfranchised
- more free wheeling
- more free-spirited
- more free-wheeling
- more freebie
- more freespirited
- more freewheeling
- more handout
- more liberated
- more open handed
- more open-handed
- more self ruling
- more self-directing
- more self-ruling
- more selfdirecting
- more selfruling
- more unengaged
- more unenslaved
- more unhampered
- more unregimented
- more untrammeled
- most allowed
- most autonomic
- most chargeless
- most costless
- most free spirited
- most free wheeling
- most free-spirited
- most free-wheeling
- most freebie
- most freespirited
- most freewheeling
- most handout
- most liberated
- most self directing
- most self ruling
- most self-directing
- most self-ruling
- most selfdirecting
- most selfruling
- most unengaged
- most unenslaved
- most unhampered
- most unregimented
- most untrammeled
- not tied down
- off the hook
- on cuff
- on house
- on loose
- on one own
- on one's own
- on ones own
- on own
- open handed
- self governing
- self ruling
- self-directing
- self-ruling
- selfdirecting
- selfgoverning
- selfruling
- sui juris
- un committed
- un confined
- un constrained
- un engaged
- un enslaved
- un fettered
- un hampered
- un impeded
- un obstructed
- un paid
- un recompensed
- un regimented
- un regulated
- un restricted
- un stinging
- un-attached
- un-committed
- un-confined
- un-enslaved
- un-fettered
- un-hampered
- un-impeded
- un-obstructed
- un-paid
- un-recompensed
- un-regulated
- un-restricted
- un-stinging
- un-trammeled
- unengaged
- unhampered
- unregimented
- unstinging
- untrammeled
• noun
- asleep
- dead
- dormant
- inoperative
- latent
- lifeless
- nonoperating
- passive
- quiescent
- relinquished
- slow
• open
- be had
- getable
- more getable
- most getable
- most nondiscriminatory
- non discriminatory
- nondiscriminatory
- not posted
- opendoor
• ready for use
- available
• unblocked
- un-blocked
- un-limited
• unemployed
- Unexercised
- Workless
- between jobs
- closed down
- in-active
- leisured
- more leisured
- more unapplied
- more underemployed
- more unexercised
- more workless
- most leisured
- most unapplied
- most underemployed
- most unexercised
- most workless
- on bench
- on layoff
- on shelf
- on the bench
- on the dole
- on the shelf
- out action
- out job
- out of a job
- out of action
- out of job
- out work
- re sting
- re-sting
- un applied
- un employed
- un exercised
- un-applied
- un-employed
- un-exercised
- unapplied
- under employed
- under-employed
- underemployed
- without gainful employment
• uninhabited
- un inhabited
- un-inhabited
• unoccupied
- more loitering
- most loitering
- un occupied
- un-occupied
• vacant
- Tenantless
- Untaken
- empty headed
- emptyheaded
- in curious
- in-curious
- more daydreaming
- more tenantless
- more untaken
- more untenanted
- most daydreaming
- most tenantless
- most untaken
- most untenanted
- not in use
- not use
- to let
- un intelligent
- un taken
- un tenanted
- un thinking
- un-intelligent
- un-taken
- un-tenanted
- un-thinking
- unlived in
- untenanted
- without contents
• void
- be reft
- be-reft
- forceless
- in effective
- in effectual
- in operative
- in valid
- in-effective
- in-effectual
- in-operative
- in-valid
- more avoided
- more emptied
- more forceless
- more unconfirmed
- more unenforceable
- more unratified
- more unsanctioned
- more voided
- more without
- most emptied
- most forceless
- most negated
- most unconfirmed
- most unenforceable
- most unratified
- most unsanctioned
- most voided
- most without
- not viable
- null void
- un confirmed
- un enforceable
- un fruitful
- un successful
- un-enforceable
- un-fruitful
- un-ratified
- un-sanctioned
- un-successful
- unenforceable
- unratified
- unsanctioned
• without a job
- unemployed
• without covering or content
- bare
n.
• noun
- leisure
Other relevant words:

open
realizable

Usage examples for Occupied

This altar occupied a significant position.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"

G. A. Chadwick

Only Jane Oglander ever occupied it.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Stas did not reply for he was occupied with Nell, who was barely alive.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Famous quotes with Occupied

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

John Amery
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.

William Henry Ashley
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

John James Audubon
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

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adj.

n.

v.

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