occupied
Syllables: oc·cu·pied/ˈɒkjʊpaɪd//ˈɑkjəpaɪd/
occupied adjective: reserved; engaged. Also the simple past and past participle of occupy.
Adjective
occupied (comparative more occupied, superlative most occupied)
- Reserved; engaged.
- The stall on the left is occupied.
- Synonyms:
- preoccupied
- Busy; unavailable.
- She is occupied at the moment.
- Subjugated; under the control of a foreign (usually military) presence.
- My father travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945.
- As he creeps towards the main road, someone, another occupied former human, pokes their head around the corner, then calls to others in the strange language, pointing him out. Wheeler stops in his tracks. In another moment, ten or eleven non-people are advancing on him from the road. Two of them...2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 141
Interjection
occupied
Also used as
occupied is also the simple past and past participle of occupy.
occupied meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
occupied in Tamil
- ஆக்கிரமித்த, ஆக்கிரமித்து
occupied in Marathi
- व्यापलेले, व्यापलेला
occupied in Urdu
- militarily subjugated
- مقبوض maqbūẓ, مقبوضہ maqbūẓah
- (used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable)
- مَصْرُوف masrūf
occupied in Bengali
- busy
- মশগুল mośgul
More languagesFewer languages
- occupied in Telugu
- ఆక్రమిత
- occupied in Kannada
- ಆಕ್ರಮಿತ
- occupied in Arabic
- مَحْجُوز maḥjūz, مَشْغُول mašḡūl, مُحْتَلّ muḥtall
Synonyms of occupied
Forms of occupied
| comparative | more occupied |
|---|---|
| superlative | most occupied |
Words formed from occupied
Questions about occupied
- What does occupied mean?
- Occupied means reserved; engaged.
- What is occupied in Tamil?
- Occupied in Tamil is ஆக்கிரமித்த, ஆக்கிரமித்து. See Occupied meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is occupied?
- Occupied can be an adjective or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce occupied?
- Occupied is pronounced /ˈɒkjʊpaɪd/ (UK).
Words near occupied in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: occupied (page history and authors); occupied (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); occupied (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); occupied (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); occupied (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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