English
Pronunciation
Adjective
preoccupied (comparative more preoccupied, superlative most preoccupied)
- Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
- I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
Translations
concerned with something else, distracted
- Biatah Bidayuh: ibaat
- Dutch: afwezig (nl), in gedachten verzonken
- French: préoccupé (fr) m
- German: gedankenverloren (de), in Gedanken woanders, tief beschäftigt
- Greek: προβληματισμένος (el) (provlimatisménos)
- Hungarian: belefeledkezett (hu)
- Italian: preoccupato (it) m
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- Khmer: ខ្វល់ (km) (kvɑl)
- Malay: leka
- Manx: boirit
- Maori: pakihaha, māharahara, warea (only used in the passive sense)
- Polish: zatroskany (pl), zaniepokojony (pl), zafrapowany, zamyślony (pl), zmartwiony (pl)
- Portuguese: preocupado (pt) m
- Spanish: preocupado (es), ensimismado (es), obsesionado (es) m
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Verb
preoccupied
- simple past and past participle of preoccupy