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ever-busy

ever-busy adjective: always busy; never at rest.

Adjective

ever-busy (comparative more ever-busy, superlative most ever-busy)

  1. Always busy; never at rest.
    • The Country is one huge Block of Sandstone, so many square miles of that material; ribbed, channelled, torn and quarried, in this manner, — by the everbusy elements, for a million of Ages past!1864, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, page 260
    • Of all the blessings which the study of nature brings to the patient observer, let none, perhaps, be classed higher than this; that the further he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth, the more he learns the awful and yet most comfortable truth, that they do not belong to him, but to...1885, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Ponds and Ditches, page 233

Forms of ever-busy

comparativemore ever-busy
superlativemost ever-busy

Questions about ever-busy

What does ever-busy mean?
Ever-busy means always busy; never at rest.
What part of speech is ever-busy?
Ever-busy is an adjective.

Words near ever-busy in the dictionary

  1. ever smokers
  2. ever so
  3. ever'body
  4. ever-bearing
  5. ever-burning
  6. ever-busy
  7. ever-changing
  8. ever-damned
  9. ever-growing
  10. ever-lasting
  11. ever-loving

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