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everbusy

everbusy is the alternative form of ever-busy.

Meaning of ever-busy

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

Questions about everbusy

What is everbusy the alternative form of?
Everbusy is the alternative form of ever-busy.

Words near everbusy in the dictionary

  1. everbloomers
  2. everblooming
  3. everblowing
  4. everbody
  5. everburning
  6. everbusy
  7. everchanging
  8. everclear
  9. evercookie
  10. evercookies
  11. EverCrack

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