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busily

busily adverb: in a busy manner; actively.

Adverb

busily (comparative more busily, superlative most busily)

  1. In a busy manner; actively.
    • But these sweet thoughts do ever refresh my labours,/ Most busil'est when I do it.1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene i
    • Look at the little fellows, mere bundles of fluff, paddling along so busily and sturdily.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5

busily meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

busily in Urdu

مصروفیت سے

busily in Bengali

ব্যস্তভাবে, সক্রিয়ভাবে

busily in Telugu

busily
బిజీగా bijīgā

busily in Malayalam

actively, energetically, vigorously
തിരക്കിട്ട്, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലമായി, സോത്സാഹം, ഊർജ്ജിതമായി, ഉന്മേഷത്തോടെ, മേളത്തിൽ
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busily in Kannada
ಚುರುಕಾಗಿ

Examples of busily in a sentence

  • Upon arriving at the site, they found several JCBs busily tearing down what was left of the old sheds.
  • I couldn't believe it when I saw the equipment that they were still using. Those machines were all dinosaurs, but they were busily cranking out production.
  • “I am a gentleman,” he began slowly, his back still turned, and his fingers moving busily.

All 17 example sentences with busily

Forms of busily

comparativemore busily
superlativemost busily

Origin of busily

From Middle English busily, busiliche, bisili, bisiliche, equivalent to busy + -ly.

Questions about busily

What does busily mean?
Busily means in a busy manner; actively.
What is busily in Urdu?
Busily in Urdu is مصروفیت سے. See Busily meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is busily?
Busily is an adverb.

Words near busily in the dictionary

  1. busies around
  2. busiest
  3. busieth
  4. busification
  5. Busigny
  6. busily
  7. busine
  8. Businenge
  9. Businenges
  10. busines
  11. business

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: busily (page history and authors); busily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); busily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); బిజీగా (Telugu) (page history and authors); busily (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); busily (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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